WAR NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1915, Page 6

WAR NOTES.

<'hristc;hurch, July 13. A pathetic incident is reported in a letter received in Oirist.hiuch .to-day from tins Dardanelles. Two eousins, Harold and William Aiiclt-ison (the former bfiinj,' a brother of Mrs. .Lopdell, .New Helton), whose parents reside near to each other in Melbourne, answered tile call .for recruits, William joiiiinß ll ic " j.nriau re«imi'iit and Harold (who was holiday-making in New Zealand) enlibt- , i„;r with (he 13th I North Auckland) rc- | jriiiient. 'they had not seen one an--1 other for three years, when they were ' growing lads of seventeen, and their parents were naturally desirous that •Ihev should meet in Kijypt. However, ! tlle'v did not find an opportunity to do

Y.olh regiments were ordered to tlie front, and took part in the mempntble landing on Callipoli J'ciiiiis-rila on A]iril •i.'i. and in siic-.-cpdiiig battles, llotli were in reserve, on May S, when that (ieree battle whh'h exacted wiieh heavy toll anion},' the colonials was railing'. Kach lad was unconscious of the other's presence in the locality. .Hoth were ordered .siinultaneous'ly to reinforce t'ne fast thinning firing lino, anil in the rush , up ih«' hill. While taking a brcatli, the eonsins saw one another for the first time. They shook .hands, exchanged greetings, were swept on with the rush, and did killed in that battle, and William (who is now in hospital I' was shot through the neck and s'hoiildor. Considering the circumstances and the thousands of kliaki-chul men on the Veiiinsiila, the meeting was a remarkable one. '•Wild; .lIKAST r.KT LOOSE IX THK WORLD."

I Tlw New York Tribune, in an editorial ! article dated May 11, says: '•'•'Lot no German mistake (lie temper j of tlie American people: let no German high or low misunderstand tlie new v'sion which lias come to our citizens in t'.e dnvs which >.'>ev 'li:m-> stood beside their\ murdered fellow: citizens, '•Whether wo now join in the war. whether we now' draw the sword henceforth and until'the destruction of thos,who to-dav dominate Germany, the American people will look npou tlie nations who are Curbting the Hermans as ' allies. They will hm- »nnd pray for ! sn.cess. Many millions will regret that I no American soldiers are in those lines | doing America's -jiart in the battle to i defend c'vilisatibn. "Let none mistake this fact. A wild he:r-t is loose in the world, a creature ' combining the ferocity of the animal 'with tlie lust of the degenerate' human. The struggle is not a struggle °f na ' tidns: if. is a (battle between clvilisntioft aiid barbarism. A German victory would i;i<>.:in the destruction of all we hold best in: our national life."