NEW ZEALAND TROOPS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15915, 12 May 1915, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND TROOPS.

CANADIAN APPRECIATION.

MESSAGE FROM MR. BORDEN.

[by telegraph.— press association.]

Wkixisgtok, Tuesday. J' 10 . Prime Minister lias received the following message from the Prime Minister of Canada :—" Please accept Canada's hearty tribute- to the splendid braverv of New Zealand's troops at the Dardanelles. —Borden."

To this Mr. Massev forwarded the following reply :--•• \' o w Zealand warmly thanks Canada for her tribute to the bravery of our troops at the Dardanelles. It is a soim-e of the greatest pride that our soils have emulated the magnificent courage and achievements of the" gallant Canadians at the western battlefront, mid shown the world the stamp of material of which the British Empire, when in arms, is made "

SUCCESSFUL RECRUITING.

RECORD NUMBER OF MEN.

FIFTY-SIX PASS MEDICAL TEST.

A total of 77 recruits.went before the medical officers at the Drill Hall yesterday, thereby establishing a record in the recruit for the reinforcement drafts. Filty-six if the total presented passed the test, the majority of the failures being due to unsound teeth and inability to reach the required chest measurement. 'I he men who passed yesterday will be dralttd to the seventh' reinforcements or the new column of infantry promised by the Government. Recruiting lias been very brisk during the past few days, but the recruiting orticer is still in need of a few engineers to go to Trentluim on Saturday. .Among those required are four bricklayers, a cooper, an e.etlrician, a Utter, a telegraph Pnesman, a wheeler, a blacksmith, and a shoeingsmitli. Following are the names of the men who passed yesterdr.v's medical test; — Alison, J. E. A. Hammond, V. G. Ay ling, A. 15. Lavcock, 1. Bleakley, R. H. Morgan, R. 0. Median," A. J. Mivall, A. M. Raker. E. A., Murray, K. K. Browne, J. M.ttheson, A. Billington, A. J. McKov, H. II (..'ranch, S. G. Mitchelsun, H. Clark, 1.. D. Oxenham. C. Craig, J. C. O'Menrn, J. Clark, (i. J. J. Piggies, A. A. Crawford, \V. ,f. Pegden, H. (',. Croon, W. E. A. Ryan, E. T. Carson, H. 0. RoWtson, C. C. Cowan, K. ltiinc. J. C. Darroeh, E. C. R. Stevens W. Downer, W. IV Sherell, W. Dowthwaite, W. S. Smith, 0. A. Davis, W. Scott, E. G. Emmett. A. Thompson, W. Ellis, C. 0 Tremb-.th, R. C. Ferguson, A. L. S. Wells, \V. J. Frv, F. W. White, C. F< ley. W. E. Woollcy, H. Focnrtv, J. Wilkinson, F. C. Howie.' W J Wilker. C. R. Holmes, X. K. Witterson, J. Hodder, A. Wilson, H. STATIONARY HOSPITAL. NUMEROUS VOLUNTEERS.

DR. PARKES TO TAKE COMMAND.

The notification that about a score of men were required to constitute the Auckland quota of orderlies for the second stationary hospital which New Zealand is supplying for use in Europe brought 44 applicants to Sergeant-Major J'ilkington at the Drill Hall last evening. The men were inspected and selected by LieutenantColonel Parkcs. P.M.0., assisted by Lieutenant-Colonel Inglis, in command of No. 2 Field Ambulance. The men will probably to requited to leave for Trentham on Thursday. Dr. Parkes is to take command of the second stationary hospital, and the remainder of the medical staff required will he appointed within a day or two. The list of men chosen is as follows:— A. Barnard E. R. Keely R. Itoakes W. Kehoe, ' A. K. Bovd C. H. Maddison H. S. T. Butler A. Maraa L. ('. Castleton R. Moeller N. K. P. Coldicutt ('. McAdam W. B. Cumming F. K. O'.Malcy L. L. Davidson K. K. Swinburne A. S. Duff A. White J. M. France V. S. J. Williams C. R. Gardner A. M. Wonson H. J. Hantler J. Worden T. H. Hawkins G. Griffiths H. A. Jones

HEROISM OF CANADIANS.

HAPPY WOUNDED TROOPS.

"WK HAVE DONE THE TRICK."

The magnificent conduct of the Canadians is almost the sole topic in the Canadian press says an Independent Cable message troni Vancouver, received in Sydney last week. The special correspondent with tho Canadians pictures a little town at the rearward of the tiring-line still crowded with wounded swathed in field dressings, smiling through their bandages, cheerful and proud. They were sitting along a platform awaiting their turn to be taken to the base hospitals. "We have done the trick!" they shout, and inarching men. many of them liritisli veterans, swinging towards that neverceasing Bedlam of shells, yell back: "You have!" and cheer and cheer again.

Wounded British soldiers returning to the London hospitals unreservedly praise the Canadian courage and tenacity.

The Canadian position was on a promontory iii the area operated over by the Derma attack. When the Hermans commenced t.i fall back they may, it is suggested, have been able to enfilade Mieni.

A thousand Canadians should have been i made prisoner.-, tint they won their free- ' (luin. That may partly he due to their amateurishness. The moral effects of the I Herman attack and the early success made Iby the Canadians had fiuiouslv run-,. I I them lo efforts which in ordinary circuit'stance* I hey might have been incapable ! of. Tliev felt that at the last they li-il an opportunity of provin» to the d'ermans thai they had mise'ili ulntrd orce niram, They acted accordingly. Thev stood up to tile old British traditon which every opposing general lias cursed throughout hiitory, that of never knowiio' when they were beaten. Hv all the rules of warfare, apparently, the Canadians were beiten. hut 1 thev did not know it. They suffered terrible casualties, gave as ttwn\ as they got, and eventually turned the tallies on their foes.

WAR-TIME CHARGE. [BY TKI.EGItAI'II. - I'lil.S.S ASSOCIATION'.] ('linisTi'ili'iicit, Tuesday. A man named \V. Kigglekniv was charged to-day with having, on .May 1, at Cliristchunli, spread a false report, stating "The first, second, and third contingents were practically wiped out. There will lie a special edition at nine o'clock," swell a statement being likely to prejudice recruiting. A remand to .May 19 was granted to allow accused to prepare his defence.