Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 30 April 1940, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

> An Athens message stated that t 1 French forces were operating on i [ the Asiatic side of the Dardan- • i eiles and the British forces on the t [ European side. • i Patriotic rallies were held ? i throughout New Zealand to sig- t j utilise receipt of the news that Do- • \ minion troops were participating | [ in the Dardanelles campaign, and l [ were acquitting themselves mag- • i nificently. | • The Defence Minister stated at • [ Dunedin that the New Zealand I \ infantry had left Egypt for the \ \ Dardanelles three iceeks previous- j i l y- i i Serbia had. been reduced to a f I state of extreme distress and des- ? [ titution. i I The country’s resources were i i declared to be exhausted and dis- t : ease ivas so rampant that there • | were 30,000 cases of typhoid alone, f It was feared that the entire l population would be stricken, as i conditions were quite beyond the ? Government's control. | The “Daily Chronicle ” said that f the Germans lost 60,000 men at \ Sedan in the previous September i and . 40,000 at Longwy, inhere the f Crown Prince suffered from a ner- | vous breakdown and was only | | rescued at the sacrifice of an en- | ? ormous number of men. I