THE LANDINGS ON GALLIPOLI

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13208, 27 September 1915, Page 4

THE LANDINGS ON GALLIPOLI

GENERAL HAMILTON'S FIRST

DESPATCH

We have received from Messrs Gordon and Gotch a copy of an illustrated booklet containing Sir lan Hamilton's first despatch embodying the story of the historic landing on Gallipoli. The "London Spectator,'-' referring to the despatch, says: Every man, woman and child ought to read the story of these landings and remember always as he reads that the vast majority of the troops —the Naval Division, the Territorials, and the Australians and New Zealanders, even the 29th Division, which has made an imperishable name for itself, had not had much training for war. . . . Sir lan Hamilton says of the landings, "No finer feat -of arms has even been achieved by the British soldier or any other soldier."

The profits of the sale of the booklet are to be devoted to the New Zealand fund in aid of the soldiers who have been wounded, the women who have been made widows, and the children who have been made orphans, in the achievement of the glorious deeds recorded in this and and future despatches. The booklet, which is now obtainable from all news agents, contains, besides an excellent map, pictures of places mentioned in the General's Despatch. It is the intention of the proprietors to publish in similar form Sir lan Hamilton's later despatches, and the series, when completed, will be a fun official history j of the Gallipoli campaign. I