BRITISH BUDGET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16026, 18 September 1915, Page 8

BRITISH BUDGET.

PROMISED FOE TUESDAY. London, September 16. The Budget statement will be

made in the House of Commons on Tuesday next.

IMPERISHABLE " ANZAC."

ACTUAL TURKISH WORD.

TRIBUTE TO COLONIALS.

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London, August 6. The name "Anzac," which has been given to the strip of beach where the Australasians landed in Gallipoli, has rather puzzled thevßritish press, and until a few days ago they spelt it as often as not "Auzac." It is, of course, made up of the initial letters of "Australian New Zealand Army Corps," but Renter's correspondent mentions the interesting fact, as stated by a captured Turkish officer, that these letters happen to spell a real Turkish word, which means "only just." If this is so, the place is now most appropriately named.

Renter's correspondent says :"You may search any map in vain for the name Anzac. yet it is a word bound to prove imperishable in the annals of the British Empire. Let every Englishman a3d it to his memory of' the undying glories of his race. The Australian and New -Zealand division landed here, and have dug themselves into an environment quite without parallel in the whole story of military achievement. The steep brown slopes of chasms, tumbling 600 ft. down to the kiss of the surf, have been honeycombed into an incredible human warren.

"_Gun6 have been raised to astounding positions, and now slaughter from spurs of apparent inaccessibility. Inland, this wonderful legion has driven its way until at Quinn's Post, every movement must be by 6tealth and every utterance bv whisper, if it is not to" be heard in the Turkish trenches five yards away. Hidden guns at Anafarta and Gaba Tepe keep up a desultory fire across this nestling stronghold, and spent 'overs' from the enemy lines scatter dust and splash spray at all hours. But the copperish-lookiiig men laugh and sing as they come and go about their work with an indifference that is none the less superb for its callousness. " Rewards are offered by the Turks fo' the bringing in of British rifles and ammunition, and Turkish Army orders reiterate most stringent injunctions as to the conserving of cartridges and shells. Religious scrupies are beginning to prove troublesome. This is the moon of Ramabut th© fast has been so greatly modified for military reasons that the Faithful are much perturbed lest Allah may be displeased." The correspondent adds — He would be a faithless chronicler of this war, who failed to do justice to the methods of the enemy. I have been struck by the unanimous tribute paid alike by the" British and Australasian forces to the clean fighting of the foe. His courage and humanity have gained for him a respect which the Germans might well covet. His stoicism, when wounded, is on a par with these characteristics. The Turk is putting up a sturdy ficht, and maintaining his traditions as a soldier with splendid spirit. He is sorry to be fighting the English, who have so often stood his friends, and is honestly puzzled at a- policy which he has been taught to believe has for its sole purpose the betrayal of his country."