NEW YEAR GREETINGS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 1, 3 January 1916, Page 3

NEW YEAR GREETINGS

TO AUSTRALIANS. AND NEW

ZEALANDERS.

LONDON, 31st December.

New Year greetings to Australians and New Zealanders have been received from Sir George Foster, Acting-Prime Minister of Canada, who says: "The Dominion greets Australia and New Zealand, and recognises their loyal and splendid spirit, and pays an . admiring tribute to' the unsurpassed , valour of their sons on sea and land, mourns for their heroic dead, and joins them in their unalterable purpose to persist until victory crowns tho Empire's arms."

From Lord Plunket: "If there are any pessimists in New Zealand, I wish they could hear what our boys say as they daily drop in for a korero at ■ th« offices .of the New Zealand War Contin-. gent Association. They are, cheerful and modest, with hardly a grumble. Delays and disappointment have not shaken their perfect confidence, and so.it is with *-he whole. of the British forces by land and sea."

Sir lan Hamilton to the New Zealanders: "Our enemies declare that nothing is now left of New Zealand's perilous achievement, save the .graves of New Zealand'^ dead and a multitude of New Zealand wounded. Never believe it. Apart from the imperishable honour, the. services rendered to the Allied cause by ' our attack against Constantinople Cannot yet be "gauged,-but it is certain . they were far-reaching and vita!."

From Lord Denman: ."My best wishes to Australia and New Zealand for the year to come. We at Home, share the pride they, feel in the splendid deeds of their heroic troops, at Anza-c, especially for the gratifying note of loyal services ungrudgingly rendered the Empire, not only.by the soldiers and sailors, but by the Government.and peoples." Frbim Admiral Pakenham: "The New Year will witness a closer communication between the Mother Country and the Dominions, resulting in joint effort in the cause of freedom .and honour. Australian and New Zealand soldiers have written an undying history, but I am convinced that opportunity alone is wanted to enable their brothers serving in the Fleet to rival even these great achievements."

LONDON, 31st December. Lord Kitchener visited Wandsworth Hospital, and conversed with Australians and New Zealanders.