AUSTRALIA ADVERTISED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 158, 4 July 1916, Page 6

AUSTRALIA ADVERTISED.

RUSSIAN APPRECIATION. FISHER AS PETER THE GREAT.. (Times and Sydney Suu Services.) LONDON, June 28. M. K. Chukovsky, the Russian publicist, now in England, visited the Australian camp, and has printed his impressions in the Russian Press. The "Times" publishes v translation. He pays the Anzacs an eloquent and admiring tribute, and says that with difficulty he realised that these careless, handsome fellows were the heroes of the tragic Gallipoli campaign. "They have," he wrote, "the bodies of gladiators and the eyes of children." lie was amazed at the extreme wealth of the soldiers; the lowest in rank received 5/ per day." Describing Australia for Russian readers, he states that it is a place where every workman earns more than the highest-paid Russian chinovnik (civil servant). Each owns a bath and a piano. He stresses what the Australians have done under the voluntary system, and points out that 300.000 are serving when they might have, if they had felt so disposed, remained at home and read of the war. He likens Mr. Fisher to Peter the Great, as being in part creator of the Australian Navy.