IMMORTAL ANZAC.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3022, 17 August 1916, Page 3

IMMORTAL ANZAC.

MPRESSIONS OF MR, HUGHES

Premier Hughes, on his return to Melbourne, told how the name of An/.ac' looms large (and 'we can read "New'Zealander-s" into his- statement) : — "Everywhere I have been 1- have found myself basking in the glory ot the Australian .soldier. It is a great thing for this young country, without traditions, and without any history, that when she iirst leapt into thtgrcat arena her gallant sons comported themselves as they did. Tlie Australian soldier has covered the Australian nation with glory. He has lifted us up in the eyes of. the world. The Australian soldier has made Australia a living reality a.s a nation. If the great things which Australians d'd in Gallipol-i may as a military operation "i»e regarded as n failure. it is the most glorious failure in the history >ot' the world. It has set a standard, it has .shown to the enemy the stern fact that to make war against Britain is to make war not only against thos t «. forty-eight million people -v the narrow seas, but also against those minions in 1 lu> groat Ix'voiid."