AUSTRALIA IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 57, 8 March 1928, Page 11

AUSTRALIA IN FRANCE

RAWLINSON'S MEMORIES GENEROUS TRIBUTES (United Press Association.-^Copyright.) (keeeivea Bth Maifeh, 1 p.m.) LONDON, 7tTi March; Lord Bawlihson's war journals, dealing with tho attack on Sth August, 1918, s"ay it was a moSfc anxious business marshalling fourteen divisions of infantry, three of cavalry, more than 2000 guns, and 450 taiiks ■[ on a tea miles front without giving the eiierny.an inkling, but on. oth August General Bawliris'bn'was able to.write: ''We had two splendid . days, The Canadians and Australians have done splendid work. Tlio surprise was complete. This* tanks we're Up all the time, and.sOmeariuour* ed cars surprised the German headquarters at breakfast. We have nearly 20,000 prisoners. Everybody did splendidly, but I think the spirit of the colonial infantry probably the decisive factor. lam very proud to have commanded so magnificent an army in this historic battle." . ! . "Under the date of 14th August.General liawiinsonsayß that he visited the Australians and heard many, extraordinary stories. Ho gives as a sample the conduct of an Australian'..Oflicei', A. G. Gaby, held up on Bth August by a German strmig-pOint. Gaby .crawled through tlio wli'e* jumped 6ii thepara* pet alone, and With -a receiver aoni' pellet! fifty (M'tnahs arid iMv lhaehlileguniiers to suMehd&iv "Alas* he Was killed, on 11th August. ' Wd MUsfc gdt him a posthum6u3 Vletorla Crdss;" Of the night bt 30th Atigus.t KawliiU son wrote! "The-Saeoitd arid Third Australian Divisions afg determined to get hold of Mont St. Queiltili and Peffiuiie. If they can do ib quickly) I "shall be delighted, but I doubt the Boche giving up so important] a position, without a stiff fight." ■ ' The next entry, 31st August, roads: "As I was dressing -this -morning a message was received that the Australian^ havo captured Moiit. .Sti Quentin. It is indeed a magnificent performance. No praise can bo too high."