CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1922, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor, Sir, —Living in rather a sleepy place for some time, and not having much to do, I have read with intense amusement the many letters on loyalty brought forth by Bishop Liston’s alleged disloyalty and Mr. Diggins’ historical remarks re the Irish regiments at the late war. True, there were not so many Irish at the war considering its magnitude as of other countries directly concerned, especially England and France: yet those that went did their “bit” and that, as usual, magnificently. There is a little book written, entitled “The Irish at Gallipoli,” by Michael McDonagh (a luondon journalist and author), with a foreword by John Richmond, M.P., to be had at Whitcombe and Tombs, Wellington. That history is official. Therein it states that those who landed at V l>each made the landing possible. Others could have done it, let us suppose. Nevertheless it was those men who landed from the collier River Clyde that made the landing, and dislodged the Turks, and took the castle or fortress of Sed-el’ Bar. Who were on the Clyde? The Munsters and the Leinsters with a eompanv of Hampshires, so states the history’of the ’’lrish at Gallipoli.” On reviewing the remnants of those gallant fighters their General Sir Hunter Weston adressed them thus: “Well done, boys, you have achieved the impossible.” This nonsense about cut-throat Sinn Feiners is beside the question. Each

man has his own opinion on that matter. I dare not give mine, because of the laws of New Zealand affecting seditious utterances. 1 forbear discusing debatable questions because of the fear of getting into the “dink.” —I am, etc ■ J. P. PRENDERGAST, Catholic Presbytery, Opunake. [This correspondence is closed. —Ed.]