MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 25 May 1915, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS.

AUSTRALASIAN TSOOPS.

THEIR QUALITIES COMMENDED

JiY GOVERNGri-GENERAL

(Received May 25, 12,30 p .m.) MEjIBOUIINE, May 25. Sw -R. Muitro-Ferguson-, speaking at a : veterans' luncheon, said that even Italy, Germanv?s ally, fead had to join against the would-be tyrant and persecutor of mankind.

Australasians, he . continued, # wilJi their adaptability, initiative, intelligence and dash, and with submission to discipline, made some of. the finest troops tnat had ever marched under the British flag, &s thiey had shown at Gailipo'li. The dasli of British arms was. only equalled by the endurance of the rank and file of the Australasian forcel.