Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 6

Twenty-Five Years Ago

• It ivas reported that half a caml pany of Australians engaged in l the Gallipoli campaign was comI pletely wiped out by a numeri- | cally superior force of Turks, on i tohom they inflicted very heavy ? losses. | In a message to New Zealand, • General Sir lan Hamilton stated: f “May I, speaking out of a full | heart, be permitted to say how I gloj'iously the Australian and New l Zealand Contingents have upheld ! the finest traditions of our race $ during this struggle which is still i in progress. f “At first, with audacity and dash, f and since then with sleepless val- ? our and untiring resource, they | have already created for their | countries an imperishable record | of military virtue.” | The Turks, according to a Bulf garian report, were poisoning the l water supplies on the Peninsula. I Americans were warned by Herr f Dernburg that they travelled en- | tirely at their own risk on Briti ish ships, and that Amercan vesf sels would be torpedoed if they l had contraband aboard, thoxigh, in • the latter instance, the passengers ! and crew might possibly be given I time to escape. | An Italian Army of 600,000 men | was concentrated in the province i of Verona ready to take the field. f Recent fighting in North France i has been chiefly to the advantage j of the Allies, who had resisted all l attacks. | Sworn evidence was published • to the effect that the Bavarians | were ordered to make no British | prisoners, and that many captured i British were shot in cold blood, | wltile 10 were burned to death in i an airship hangar, for■ which deed f medals were awarded to the per- ! petrators. '. a ..»..0