"ADMIRABLE RESTRAINT AND GOOD MANNERS."

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16793, 22 February 1915, Page 3

"ADMIRABLE RESTRAINT AND GOOD MANNERS."

EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OX NEW ZEAL ANDERS. Private Hawke has sent a copy of the "Egyptian Mail*' welcoming the New Zealand troops. Tho journal says:— '•' Those who did Hot before realise the meaning of the Empire, who did wot perceive the essential unity, the solidarity based on the rock of racial

sympathy, which binds together its component parts, have had a golden chance. Thoy have seen Australians and New Zcalanders come in thoir thousands equipped for war with a thoroughness which even the Kaiser's legious could not surpass, and setting a standard' of physique which the Herman troops could not hope to equal; and. they have conducted themselves under strange J)n d often difficult surroundings with the most admirable selfrestraint and good manners."