AUSTRALIA'S NIGHT,

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19775, 13 November 1929, Page 11

AUSTRALIA'S NIGHT,

AUTHORS' CLUB DINNERGALLANT DEEDS RECALLED. (Uci'ivrd November 12th. o.~> p.m-1 LONDON", November 1"JThe Armistice dinner at the Author* Club nrovod .in Australian night. General Sir Torn Hridc<the guest of honour, spoke on "Armistice Day and the Dominions." He detailed a typical Aiir-ic Day. which he described as Au> tralia'a real'war celebration. General Bridges ejqire»»ed 'l' l ' npininn that t!ii- prime error the Ger- [ mans mad" before the war wan that j oi the psychology of the Kmpire. Thoro would, he said, have been 110 war if the Germans had had a provision of what Australians and New Zcalan did at Anzae Core, or on that wonderful eighth of August which was a real black day for Gcr- | Many—when the Australians made a 'ok twelve miles deep in the German I line. That was a feat unknown in war np till that time. If he had to say why the Dominions rallied to the Mother Country, he wainclined to think that the real explanation was that there had been an imnitn.se ntimwr of men overseas full lust lor adventure. The World War was an adventure for the men of th« Dominions, similar to that pro

vidid by the colonisation efforts of ! tin ir forebear-. «ieniT;.i Bruizes eontinued: "T have n;>'t manv Anstt alums who told liu 1 that they enjoyed war. One man whose wound* ran into double figures said that thov iveii> the jolliest tour * Ci ' rs • I ' s ''f*'- These men are very diherent tti>m the gloomy fellows found in the majority of latter-dav war novels." he added." Professor W. A. 0.-borne. of Melbourne University, who has just arrived sn London after a tour of the I lut.'d Stat.-, and Mexico, said : "\ev. r vinco the war period *va« there »u<li friendly in the United State* in favour of the British Empire. As !<>r England it>elf. when people say that it is invaded by a white ant, don't br]levo it." Prof ''"or George Henderson. of Adelaide 1 niver«iiv. paid a tribute to the affoetion of the people of South Australia for Goner:)l Sir Tom Bridecs. Commander A. E. Hall, of the Renown. de=''tibcd Anzar Day in Mel- j bourne ii: 10'27. and said that '28.000 soldieis part iking in the celebrations «a < - a which no lover of the ! Umpire would ever forti«'t.