NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2501, 30 June 1915, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

London, May 20. Mr. C. L. St. Hill, of Hawera, who went through the South African war, is applying for a commission ill the Imperial Army. Miss E. M'Mullin, of Dunedin, arrived in London on April 19 to offer her services as a nurse. Mr. Edmund Ci. Baskett, of Auckland, who was for threo years metallurgist in the gold mines of South Africa and Rhodesia, was last year transferred as Chief Metallurgist to a mine on the Gold Coast. He is at present in England on holiday leave, and has definitely decided to resign his post and join the forces for the front during the war. He expects to get a commission immediately. Mrs. Sullivan, wife of Mr. Tom Sullivan, of Auckland, the sculler and rowing coach, is in Enaland with their two children. Her husband, who had been engaged by the Berliner Rowing Club previous to the war, was unfortunately on the outbreak of hostilities interned with his son, aged 19, at Ruhleben. Mrs. Sullivan, who is trying to obtain their release, received two letters from them last week, stating that they were both well.

On Thursday, May 6, the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, accompanied by Miss Mackenzie, visited Ramsgate to unveil a cominemorath e tablet' in the Royal Sailors' Rest there. Tlu home is now filled with British wounded soldiers. The proceedings opened with a luncheon given by the Mayor of Ramsgate. After the unveiling of the tablet, which commemorates, among other things, the gift from the British and Foreign Sailors' Society's Port Lyttelton Branch, New Zealand, of a cot for wounded soldiers in the Homeland, the following resolution, proposed by. the Rev. E. Hertslet, vicar of Ramsgate, and seconded by Sir Cecil Hertslet, H.M.S. Consiil-Geiieral for Antwerp, was carried: —"That this meeting, .on behalf of the town of Ramsgate, thanks Their Majesties for their gracious messages, and the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand, for his visit, for the unveiling of a commemorating tablet, and also for his patriotic speech; also his Worship the Mayor for his generous hospitality, and for presiding at the meoting; and expresses the hope that the sale will be a great success." French Feeling for the Germans. The sudden and terrible anger of England against Germany for her barbaric work at sea has inclined us to compare the feelings of French and English people generally (writes the London correspondent of "The Queen"). The whole of France looks upon everything German as absolutely beyond the pale, and it is quite common to find women who feel positively and actively revengeful to the race which has murdered French women and children, mutilated French soldiers, and destroyed Trench property. Since the use of asphyxiating gases this feeling/has grown more acute, [and in several instances Frenchwomen have,been heard tb say that they could not and would not nurse a German after such cruelty. They have had under their care French and English soldiers who have suffered from the effects of those gases, and they can never forget their agony. Whether the hatred of the Germans is deeply rooted in the French mind it is hard to say. There never has been and never will be any sympathy betwoen the two rases, but for that very reison hatred may be impossible. France will loathe Germany for a very long time, and she will never cease to be suspicious of lier whatever happens. But whether she will firmly keep her at a distance only time can prove. It would be rather characteristic of the French people if, when the war i« over, they should return' to a closer home life than ever, barring their doors to all strangers alike, and in the minute care of their own particular, interests they should neglect the wider .outside ones of the country for which they will have paid such a terribly high price. The intense love of domestic life which marks all French people is a drawback when broad political questions hang in the balance, because it leaves the field too free for the adventurer, and corruption is too easily practised; and although at the present moment notices are put up in several Paris shops to say that 110 German will be served there, it would not be wise to say they will be still there six months after the war is over.

Miss M'Lellan, secretary for the St. John Ambulance Carnival Committee, acknowledges the following sums towards their 'Queen campaign Cheque for £13 155., proceeds of raffle of a camera, presented by Mr. T. M. Hardy; cheque for £5 from Messrs. A. and T. Burt of Dunedin; "Anonymous, £5 and a cheque for £2 2-S; from Dr. Hogg, of Invercargill.

On Marcli 10, states the "British Australasian," Mr. Edward de Courcey Clarke, son of Mrs. Marsden Clarke, of New Zealand, was marrred to Miss Josephine Palmer, daughter of Mr. Alfred Palmer, Unlej Park (S.A.).