DOMINION'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 5

DOMINION'S PART.

OUR MEN AT THE FRONT. EVERYONE BUT BOYS WANTED. INTERESTING LETTER PROM A NEW ZEALANDBR. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hastings, Last Night. In a personal letter to the editor of the Tribune, dated Mudros, October 28, Brigadier-General Sir Andrew Russell says:—"l see recruiting is satisfactory. I am sorry to think that they will be wanted, every one of them. The class of men coming forward is very good, and our reinforcements compare well with any I have seen at Mudros, where most come on their way to the Peninsula. Age is of importance. Young fellows under 21 don't wear well; their stomachs don't seem to hold out against diarrhoea and enteric. Men from 26 to 3d years are the ibest, though the yenng ones, no doubt, can give us older man a beating in getting over the ground fast. But then soldiering does sol include a daily charge, but does include * daily encounter with microbes. Ho Mounted Brigade has had a rest for 4 nearly two months, and we are off any day to the Peninsula, or elsewhere. •! hope we go as well in the next KTies ■ as in the last.

"What we do want is a chance ol fighting as Mounted Rifles, and I hud' hopes that the Salonika venture vtight* and may still, have given us the chance. The men could not have fought better. I believe we shall want all the cardigu jackets we can get before winter Is > over (at the end of April). The pro». pect of a winter in the trenches is. enough to make one feci cold. Another twelve months should see the job through, and those of us who survive will he glad to tie up alongside Wallington wharf. General Munro, the b«w Commander-in-Chief, has just inspects) us. If looks go for anythiag we got a fighting general."