ANZAC DAY.

Northern Advocate, 19 April 1923, Page 7

ANZAC DAY.

THE LANDING RECALLED. Apropos of the Anzac Day anniversary, to be observed on Wednesday next, a Hikurangi correspondent revisions the historic landing as follows:— Those who wish to imagine the scene , must think of twenty miles of very | rough and steep sea coast known to them, picturing it as roadless, waterless, much broken with gullies, covered with scrub, aandy, loose and difficult on which to walk and without more than two miles of accessible landing throughout its length. Let them picture this twenty miles as dominated at intervals by three hills bigger than the hills around them, the north hill a peak, the centre a ridge or plateau and the south hill a lump. Then let them imagine the hills entrenched, the landing mined, the beaches tangled with barbed wire ranged by howitzers, and swept by deadly machine gun fire, and themselves three thousand miles from home and dear ones, going out before the dawn, with rifles, packs and water bottles, to pass the mines under shell fire, cut through the wire under , machine gun fire, clamber up the hills under the fire of all arms, by the glare of shell bursts, in the withering and crashing tumult of modern war —and then to dig- themselves in in a waterless and burning hill while a more numerous enemy charges them with the bayonet. And let them imagine them- | selves enduring this night after night, day after day, without rest or solace, nor respite from the perils of death, seeing their friends "wounded and killed and their position imperilled; obtaining their food, their munitions, even their water from the jaws of death, their breath from the taint of death and their brief sleep upon the dust of deaith. Lfet them imagine themselves driven mad by heat and toil and thirst by day, shaken by frost at night, weakened by disease and broken by pestilence, yet rising on the word with a shout and going forward to die in exultation in a cause foredoomed and almost hopeless. Only then will they begin, even dimly, however, to understand what the seizing and holding of the landing on Gallipoli meant. There is no known remedy which is so successful as Nazol in counteracting the influence of the germs, which produce hoarseness, sore throats, sneezing and running at the nose. "Advocate" for; Job Printing.