Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1913. Dardanelles Developments.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 2

Feilding Star, Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1913. Dardanelles Developments.

O.citi-, the most interesting news now coming daily o\er the cables is that reporting the progress of the operations of the allied fleet in forcing the Dardanelles. And New Zealanders will dc ojop.a personal interest- in (hose operations as Ihcy grasp Hie possibilities. For it may be the good fortune of tho New Zealand and Australian forces which have just completed their training in Egypt to '»« sent against, the Turks either on the plains of Gallipoli or at Smyrna, instead of waiting for the enemy b come again into the Land of Pyiamids. If it should be that our boys are sent to the Dardanelles to help complete the conquest the warships have so well begun-- and wo shall noi know of their removal from Egypt to Turkey until they are actually marching against Constantinople—then they will be under the direction of ono-.oi the most trusted and ablest of Frenchmen, General d'Amande, who saw New Zealand and Australian troops at work in t'.:e Boer war, which lie went through as a French military attache. At present, General tl'Amade's force which has been landed in the Dardanelles area comprises French-Canadians and Senegalese, and it is but fitting that she should have .Britishers from overseas, plus some of India's contingent, to co-operate with French colonials.