PROMOTIONS AT GALLIPOLI.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1915, Page 4

PROMOTIONS AT GALLIPOLI.

Australians and New Zealanders alike should: be- pleased to hear that General Birdwood; concerning whose tact and military capacity so many favorable reports have been received from our. men, has been appointed to the supreme command on the bralhpoh Peninsula, -thus filling the vacancy created by ihe.j-etum to England of General Sir laii Hamilton. General i Godley's promotion to the command of i!ot only the New Zealanders but ! the Australians should also give satisfaction; and have the effect of still further welding together the men from both sides of the Tasman Sea in friendly sympathy and combined determination to give further splendid proof of their fighting quality and their loyal devotion to the cause of the Empire! We in New Zealand may not have heard quite so much of General Godlev's movements in connection with -Hie campaign, as we might have wished to hear, but General Godley is not a general of the "self-advertiser" class, and the very fact that his promotion has followed so qiiickly upon the recent visit of Lord Kitchener to the Dardanelles may be accepted as pleasantly convincing proof that the ex-Commandant of New Zealand's Territorial Armvis regarded by the Ooi!imander-in-CJhief as being essentially the right man in the right place. His. appointment may be taken as _ a satisfactory answer to certain mischievous rumors which have been currenr ironi time .to time as to General Godley's abstention from certain of the more danger-laden operations of the forces. Lord Kitchener is not the sort of man to promote a. commander whom he did not consider was in every way worthy of his new position.