"GALLIPOLI TO-DAY"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 9 October 1926, Page 7

"GALLIPOLI TO-DAY"

T. J. PEMBERTON'S NEW BOOK PREFACE DY SIR lAN HAMILTON (By Electrio Teiegr»,oh.— Copyright.) ("Sun" Cable.) (Rec. Oct, 9. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 8. T. J. Pemberton, a New Zenlander, publishes a book, "Callipoli To-day," to which Sir lau Hamilton has written an introduction, in which he says the most accurate estimates show Turkish killed 03,266, wounded 168,612, liospitalled 238,904; British killed 32,562, missing 7654, wounded 78,261. He says that in Whitehall and Fleet Street the Dardanelles was lost." Let New Zealanders and Britons never forget it. We had the old bulldog spirit, and the British soldier was reinforced by what will be the determining factor in the future of the world, that is, the spirit of the English-speaking antipodes behind us. We had a swarm of adverse influences and faint hearts and feeble wills seemed to succeed in making vain the sacrifices of the Anzac at Ilelles and Suvla. Only the dead stuck it out. Cod bless them for ever." Referring to General God ley's speech at the unveiling of the New Zealand memorial at Chunak Bair Sir lan Hamilton says that Demosthenes himself could not have enhanced the effect of the story told by a soldier who played a- leading part. Peinberton's book is fully illustrated and gives an admirably impressive description of the. hallowed ground as it appears to-day, fully detailing the activities which arc ensuring a. suitable memorial to those who sueffred there.