ANZACS IN THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1919, Page 6

ANZACS IN THE WAR.

EULOGISED BY SIR CONAN DOYLE?. BULLING GERMANY'S TEETH. London, Jon. '27. At an Australian and New Zealand' luncheon Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .delivered a glowing panegyric on Gi'e jjreat deeds of the Australians and .New //eatanders in the war. _ lie said the Australians had never been in a great disaster but twice saved the situation when the position was most desperate at Amiens and Hazenbruek. No division had a liner record than the New /eulanders. It was in line and under fire from the t.ime it came to the assistance of the iioh Army in March till the armistice was signed. The New 2ealanders commenced their advance on August 21 and never ceased to go forward, fighting all the time, till Noyember 11.

"No-w we have got Germany down we ought to pull her teeth and cut her claws. If we don y t there is sure to be another war." To obviate this, one of the strongest terms in the peace treaty shonid be that the territory west of the Rhine be made a separate unit from which Germany 'should not be allowed to raiao conscripts, nor should any German troops be allowed west of the Rhine. Then French people will be able to sleep o' n'ghts. The German, fleet should be taken in procession to blue waters, the valves opened and the ships sunk. This woull save petty squabbling among the Allies as to who should have them. That would be a real "Der Tag." Colonel Sir James P.arrett moved: "That this representative meeting '"of Austrabf.ua axoresscs its appreciation of Mr. Uy*'-.ii '*i.ing at the Peace Conf straUuu opinion regarding the future of the Pacific Islands; that it is essential that former enemy possessions captured by the Australasian forces shall for the future safety of The Commonwealth and Dominion bo placed effectively within their control, if necessary under a mandate from the. League of Nations." This was carried unani-mously.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.