ANZAC LEADERS.
BIRDWOOD AND MONASH. London, Nov. 15. General Sir William Birdwood and Lieut.-General Sir John Monash have sailed in the Ormonde. Numbers of Australians joined in friendly demonstrations of farewell. The Times, in a leading article, states: "General Birdwood and General Monash, who are departing for Australia, take an assurance of the warm affection and admiration of the people of Britain, They go without ostentation, and it may seem without adequate farewell, but there is 6iich a unanimity about the place they and the forces they commanded hold in the proudest annals of the war that nu formal farewell could be .vorthy. of it. "General Birdwood will live in history as a general supremely endowed with a great gift for the leadership of men. He won from the first the confidence of men unparalleled in mettle of critical spirit, and of that cold courage which the will creates in alliance with the brain. "General Monash is the very type of a scientific soldier. Ho is possessed of a genius for organisation, and is one of the most striking examples the war has produced of latent military ability in nodern civilian life. Australia has reason to In proud of both, and knows it."
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5
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203ANZAC LEADERS. Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1919, Page 5
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