AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1919, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS.

PREPARING TOR DEMOBILISATION London, Jan 19. The sews that the war was over for Australians and Xew Zcalanders, whatever might ocelli was received with the utmost satisfaction by the Australian corps still stationed in the Charleroi and Dinan districts They are most comfortably billeted m towns and villages Even privates have the luxury of a bed after strenuous campaigning and constant movement. The soldiers find the people extremely hospitable, a [contrast wijli various other places in France and Belgium, whore there is a tendency to exploit soldiers. The Belgian people just released from the Him jvvasion greeted the Australians with greatest cordiality, and Australians may frequently he seen taking a Belgian family—father, mother, and children, to the local military cinema shows. The New Zealand division remains in the neighborhood of Cologne, while the "Maori battalion has been reassembling at Dunkirk with a view to repatriation m a body. tif likely the New Zealanders will shortly move near the coast to the vicinity of Havre with • vinv> to facilitating demobilisation. The . French railways are congested bin through trains, composed of ambulance cars now converted into sleepers, •re running from Germany to the coast with a view to brmeine out all the remaining 1915 Australians, numbering 1-2 000 It has been arranged for 1000 to cross the Channel from Havre tn AVelmaiit.h every three days, being replaced by the latest reinforcements. Tt. has been decided that all Australians shall embark homeward from ar Fvtffiish -oort. Thirteen thousand five hundred departed in December in ) r t sf-namers. and eight steamers have sailed 1n January carry in? RSOO. the total shinped being over 20,000.—Au5.N.Z. Caible Assn