“GREAT ADVENTURE”

Northern Advocate, 14 November 1929, Page 5

“GREAT ADVENTURE”

ANZAC INSPIRATION

VALOROUS' PERFORMANCES,

GLOWING RECITAL,

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON. November 12. At the Armistice Day dinner at the Authors’ Club, General Sir Tom Bridges, former Governor of South Australia, spoke of a typical Anzae Hay, which he described as Australia’s and New Zealand's ical war eelebra-

l ! .on. j General Bridges expressed the opinion that the prime error made by the Germans before the war was misjudging the psychology of the Empire. There would have been no war if the ' ermnns had had a pre-vision .of what he Australians and New Zealanders did at Anzae Cove, or of that wondcr- ‘ iil August 8, which was a really black '.’ay for Germany, when the Australians made a hole 12 miles deep in the German line—a feat unknown in the ar up to that time. If he had to say why the Dominions had rallied to the Mother Country, he ■ ould be inclined to think the real explanation was that there was an imenee number of men overseas full the lust of adventure. The Great ‘•.far was an adventure for the men ■Vo m the Dominions, similar to the • donisation efforts of their forebears. The general said he had mot many ‘ nstialians who had told him they ijoyjHl the war. One man whose ounds ran into double figures said "ic war provided the jolliest four! ears of his life. Those men were cry different from the gloomy fellows V.und in the majority of latter-day ar novels.