INTERESTING LECTURE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 March 1920, Page 2

INTERESTING LECTURE

WAR EXPERIENCES. Tlie Bishop of Nelson, Rt. Rov. Dr. Sadher D.D,., delivered a, lecture last night in the Holy -Trinity School on - ■ some reminiscences of his year spent with the N. Z. Expeditionary Force in Franco and Belgium. The lecture was iilustraeted by official glides of incidents on the voyage home and in France. At the onset he disclaimed any expert knowledge in military affairs and declned to discuss questions of tactics and organisation. Ho gave a sketch of the life of the soldiers on board sh : p and in France. The picture illustrated the amusement on board a troopship and some of the perils of travel. The lecture was specially interesting as the ship in which the Bishop accompaned the troops to England went ashore at Jamica where the reinforcement was delayed for three weeks. Some vivid 'pictures of the life of the boys in Jamaica illustrated a phase which was unusual.. Ten clays were spent in New York and the voyage home occupied 80 days. In France the troops had crossed the canal at Cambrai, when ho reached the division and the battle of Beauvois bad just been fought and the Germans bad retired to Quievy. The Bishop then described by means of pictures the advance on Solemes. One picture particul- * arly illustrated the unnecessary barbarity of the Germans. They had shelled the parish church and had wrecked the high altar and destroyed the organ. Various scenes in a chaplain’s life were illustrated such as the burial of the deal and the holding of parade services. The two sides of the last great battle were illustrateed by pictures showing the walls of Lo Quesnoy which the “Times” described the most dramatic incident in war ; and of the ambulancp through which 530 New Zealand wounded boys passed during the fourth and fifth ■'November 1918. In closing tbo lecturer paid great tribute to the fighting qualities and characters of the New Zealanders.