MORE PRESS PRAISE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 5

MORE PRESS PRAISE.

MINISTERS CRITICISED. A HERMAN OPINION OF THE EVACUATION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 22. The press again devotes the principal columns to the withdrawal from Anzac and Suvla. The outstanding feature is the universal references to the Australasians, who brilliantly carried out their part in the Suvla.operations, The Westminster Gazette points out that only the rarest qualities of skill and nerve could have enabled the withdrawals to' be made without loss of guita and stores under the eyes of the enemy. It is too soon to reckon up the enterprise. If it failed in its original purpose it has enriched history by a chapter of unequalled daring and heroism, which probably prevented renewals of attacks Ugaimst Egypt. Let none say that the , brave men laid down their live 3 in vain. I While our race lives, Anzac will be an imperishable name and full of proud memories for Australia.

The Evening Standard says that the ill-starred, ill-considered enterprise, begun as minor naval operations, was continued as major military operations, which achieved nothing saye an epic of fruitless valor. It has wrecked political and military reputations, and ended like all gambles. _ The paper hints that it was a mysterious distinguished colleague of General Monro who recommended the withdrawal.

The Times says that the standard of the enemy at Gallipoli appears to have equalled in numbers our own army, and was composed of the flower of Turkish fighters. If they discovered that the retirement was proceeding and did not try to interfere, one can only conclude, in vulgar phrase, that "the stuffing had been knocked out of them" and that their morale had degenerated. We feel the disappointment of the Australasians deeply. The world has rung to their deeds, and it is a sad ending to their first great enterprise. It is hoped that the disappointment will be assuaged by the thought that they were only withdrawn to give them new opportunities under conditions more promising for success. The Daily Mail says that what is wrong with -the conduct of the war is the management of the politicians, not the conduct of the soldiers on the field. There has been nothing more splendid as a military operation than the withdrawal from Suvla and Anzac with the loss of only four men wounded. Nothing has been more unpardonable than the vaccilation and feebleness of the Ministers who left a large force marooned for months while trying to make up their minds to remove them.

The President of the Reichstag ?ays that the evacuation of Gallipoli is a military and moral defeat for England and a triumph for the Turkish arms. MORE CASUALTIES. LIST NO. 126. Received Dec. 23, 8.5 p.m. Sydney, Dec. 23. Died of wounds: Sapper 'A. Garden, Wounded: Sergeant S. Barnard (disembarked at Malta), J. Jaurenson. Ill: Corporal H, McKnight, Privates C. K. Robinson, J. Austin (disembarked at Malta), W. flarrison, J. King, W. M. O'Connor (in hospital at Birmingham). Previously reported ill, now wounded: Quar-termaster-Sergeant A. H. Brewer (disembarked at Malta), Private D. McDade (In hospital at Epsom). Returned to Egypt on duty. G. A. Crutchfleld, B. Leroy.