Empire Outposts.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 355, 15 February 1917, Page 5

Empire Outposts.

AUSTRALIA. CALL FROM FRANCE.

COME OVER AND HELP I S."

BOY WHO WANTS TO BE A DRUMMER.

Sydney, Feb. 8. “There is a pnagranh in Captain Bean’s last despatch which, I think, will bear reprinting.” said Professor Maeintyre, chairman of the State Recruiting Committee, yesterday. “It runs: ‘To-night, in the face of one of the bitterest north-cast winds that have driven the snowdrift over the slopes of these bleak French downs within living memory, the Australians attacked portion of a German 1 rcneli. ’

“Tiny seized the trench and duuonts, and held them.” said Professor M;u intyre, “but imagination pictures these gallant Australians under climatic conditions so different from that of their own bright land, battling against the storm and beating the Germans. The picture is one which should touch the imagination of every young man in Austialia. and from it he should feel tin* call. ‘Come over and help us.’ “Some of our young boys.” Professor Maeintyre uent nn, “have been reading the recruiting literature. and the following is a cony of a letter which came to me from a subu’-h of the North Shore: “Dear Professor Maeintyre. - 1 want to enlist because men are getting scarce. T am 12 years old, but ift. Sin. high, and my mother will s; cn the papers. [am P”otty healthy, and want to go as a drt>>nmpr. T can boat a drum prettv well, because I learnt at school. 1 can p’-zet's'' at home : I have two drumsticks.”

“Perhans the young boy’s drum mav awaken others from the sleep of selfish indolence.”