THE DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1915, Page 4

THE DOMINION'S PART.

"WE WANT MEN." 6TKAIGHT TALK. FROM OXE WHO IMS BEEX THERE, liy Telegraph.—Press.. Association. Wellington, Last Xight. Speaking at the New Zealand ClubV luncheon to-day Captain .1. A. Cross (lately a, master of Wellington College), who has just returned from active ser vice ai. Gallipoli, impressed upon those pvesenc how badly men were required Tlie romance of war had finished with the playing of ''lt's A Long, Long Way to Tipperary." and brass 'hands. Afte'i that it was real solid hard work. Hi had seen men come from the trencher after forty-eight hours without a wink 01 sleep_ and then put on to do sap work. At a place named "Courtney'." Post," the men had to do forty-eight Hours work in rho trench without sleep, and came out with their eyes bloodshot and staggering like drunken men. ''W» want men, and we want men all th< time," said Captain Cross. All the time ho was at the front he was unable to keep his men up to full strength. Volun. teers were wanted, not men who we-t pushed into it. He had never heard are) complaining, though there was anj amount of growling, hut that was f soldier's privilege. He had never seei so many acts of devotion as,he had a: the front. 'Don't you think those men are wortl helping?" said Captain Cross in the coa elusion of his remarks.