GALLIPOLI REVISITED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

GALLIPOLI REVISITED.

A PLACE OF QUIET

Gallipoli, swept and garnished, has become a place of pilgrimage. Last year a Gallipoli cruise in a liner was organised by the Royal Naval Division Association, and Sir lan Hamilton, witn no hint of the eighties in his steji, saw the tourists off in London. A record of the cruise has been written by W. L. Stanton Hope, and published in attractive format and with excellent illustrations by the author and the R.N.D. Association. 195, Piccadilly, London. Mr. Hope was in the ■ original landing, and last year he went to Gallipoli in the comfort and luxury of a peace-time cruise in a 20.000 ton ship. "Time is a gentle deity," he quotes from a Greek dramatist. Time has dealt gently with Gallipoli. "How quiet it is" was a comment of soldiers re-visiting the battlefield. The friendship between former enemies is well enough illustrated by the incident of an R.N.D. man who had lost a hand, fraternising with the Turk who had lost an arm. The illustrations include the ship River Clyde, which now flies the Spanish Hag. Why? This book, bringing back as it does inany memoriee, and showing how the wounds of men have been healed, should have a wide appeal.