GALLIPOLI.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18152, 15 August 1924, Page 12

GALLIPOLI.

ADDRESS BY PROFESSOR STEWART. The ej»io story of the New Zealanders at Galiipoli was told to a large audience at the Choral Hall last night by Professor Hugh Stewart, who was a Colonel in the New Zealand Forces on the Peninsula. Mr G. T. Weston, a member of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, presided. The proceeds will be devoted to tho Canterbury College War Memorial. "Both at Anzac and Helles," said tho lecturer, ''only a fraction of the objectives assigned to the covering troop was secured, much less those given to the whole force. At Anzac this failure was due not to the landing being effected at another point from that proposed, or to the , Australians pushing out far beyond their objective. Actually only two small parties reached the objective. It was owing to a confusion and disorganisation of units, duo mainly to the inexperience of the troops. For the unsuccessful attack in August, it was not fair to lay all the blame on the fiasco at Suvla. The Dardanelles. Commission had appeared to doubt the wisdom of unde taking the operation at night, but under the special circumstances the plan was certainly right. It has often been, urged, however, that the feints on the right of the line used up too many men, who would have been better employed in making good and extending our hold on tho vita] ridge. Certain features of the plan were too amHtious, and in certain respects the methods adopted both by the higher command and by units were open to criticism. No blame was attributable to the two English battalions who were overwhelmed in tli© Turkish counter-attack on Chunuk Bair."

Professor leetu r o was illustrated with about "100 slides of rare historical value, which clearly showed the impossible nature of the task with which the troops were confronted. At the conclusion of the address the lecturer was accorded a vote of thanks. Professor Stewart's lecture will bp repeated in the Choral Hall this evening for pupils of the secondary schools. The lecture "will begin at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7.15. There will be a certain number of scats available for seasonticket holders and t'or members of the general public (at 2s) who were unable to attend last night's lecture.