GENERAL RUSSELL.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 14, 18 June 1920, Page 8

GENERAL RUSSELL.

(Sgd) A. H RUSSELL.

APPRECIATES "THE DIGGER." The following is an extract from a letter received from General A. H. Russell "I should like to con.gratulate you on your publication "The Digger," which is full of good matter, even for such Diggers as have not the good fortune to live in Southland. One specially good point, to wit, you recognise that while we shall never for- ; get our old comradeship in Palestine and France, we have got back "home" and want local news and doings sandwiched in between war poems and trench anecdotes. Very glad to see that- some of the R.S.A. ii> Southland, notably Colonel Mitchell, and that fine officer Colonel Hargest, intend to take as active a part in keeping things moving in peace time as they did so successfully in war. For the history of Southland's part in I the war, it is well worth an historian, for the Otago 's were ever in the hottest corners and tightest places. I may say they had an infallible instinct for hard fight-in-g, which no manoeuvring on my part could defeat. But the details and local colouring must be looked for rather from the personal leaders, Col. Smith, Col. Cunningham, Col. Hargest, and others. But should any point come up which seems doubtful, I shall be very glad to give your contributor any assistance I can in clearing it up. Wishing you all success, Yours sincerely,