"THE INCOMPARABLE 29ths"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 4

"THE INCOMPARABLE 29th s"

A.N ANZAC'S TRIBOTE. By Teleerapfl.—Press ABsociatlon. Gisborne, April 25. "Some of us have lived lo ours& tho word Anzac/' declared Captain Turnbull, D.5.0., in proposing iv roast at tho Anzac dinner to-night. "We New Zealander and Australians may have done a great deal at Anzac, but as a matter of fact we did absolutely nothing compared with that incomparable 29th Division—(cheers)—who lunded et Holies. There are some of von who, like myself, saw Capo Ilelles a week or ten jays after th» dear old 29th landed. It was something that can hardly be realised, much less described. J am proud to belong to the same nation, although I am a New Zealander, and they are Lritons. I don't for a moment belittle our landing at Anzac, bub compared with the work of the 29ths, where barbed wire was run out deep into the son, --iid the water ran red with Wood-well, I take my hat oil , to those fellows. (Cheers.) We, of the Anzacg, may have ''one well, as I have said, but we have grown aehnmed to see (.ur deeds extolled from end to end of the Empire while iho incom- ; parably greater service of Mich English Iroons as I have mentioned goes pracHcftlly unnoticed." (Cheers and proionged applause.)