NEW ZEALANDERS AT WAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 230, 28 September 1917, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT WAR.

Mr Gerald Anderson spoko for two hours to a highly interested audience at the Town Hall last night, when he told the story of the war in its many theatres, hearing more particularly on the vicissitudes of the New Zealunders and Australians. Mr Anderson is a convincing speaker, and gives one the impression that what he is telling is at first hand. In short, he knows what he is talking about, and knows how to talk about it. Some of his pictures are very fine, and they illustrate in a very marked degree the difficulties tinder which modern warfare is carried out. Especially interesting is that section of the 'lecture which deals with German Africa. The German dream of a great middle African Empire, cutting in two halves the British sphere of influence, and taking in the whole of Uganda and the Belgian Congo, is brought vividly forward, with all that it might have meant to tlie British Dominions overseas. The. lecturer contrasts this dream with what has actually taken place in Africa, and from his own actual experience draws a comparison between the beneficent British rule and that obtaining under the domination of the Hun. Mr Anderson is really a missionary preaching the doctrin* of the Pacific according to the Gospel of Australasia —the elimination of the German from the colonies which he has so brutally prostituted in the name of "Kultur." This section is by far the most interesting of the lecture, and is profusely illustrated with unique photographs. The other sections, details of which it would not be fair to the lecturer to speak, embrace the Pacific Expeditions, the Sydney-Emden fight, and the campaigns' in Mesopotamia, France, Gallipoli, and Arabia.

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