WAR FIRST, LAST. AND ALL THE TIME
SIR GEORGE REID'S POLICY.' By JVilefrrauli—Press Association—Oonyrishl London, January 42. Baron Somers, presiding at Sir George Reids meeting at the Caxtou Hall, said that Sir George Reid was welcomed as a representative of the wonderful Australians and New Zealanders who had wrought deeds more marvellous than any recorded in the military history of any country in tho world. Lord Kitchener after Ins visit to Gallipoli, had told Mr Walter Long that, although ie had had access to reports, confidential letters, and photographs, he had not realised until ho visited the spot what tho difficulties really were. 'Sir George Reid declared that his platform consisted of three planks— I'irst, the war; second, the whole war: third, nothing but tho war. He added that Lord Kitchener had told liiin he could not have believed the conditions on Gallipoli, so terribly difficult and so overwhelming in their nature, could be surmounted.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 5
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