GALLIPOLI LANDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20891, 5 June 1931, Page 11

GALLIPOLI LANDING.

TRIBUTE TO BRITISH ARMY.

GENERAL GOURAUD'S PRAISE.

LONDON, May 27. Noted Gallipoli figures at the British Legion Conferenco were Sir lan Hamilton and General Henri Gouraud, who, after being wounded at the Dardanelles, commanded the Fourth French Army.

Delegates greeted the latter with the Marseiilaise. His only misfortune, according to Sir lan Hamilton, was when a shell blew up 23,000 bottles of claret during the war. General Gouraud is staying with Earl Jellicoe, who, in a presidential Bpeech, paid a tributo to the Legion's Employ-' ment Bureau, which had filled 10,000 jobs and enabled 1500 men to migrato last year.

Cheers for himself, the Duchess and tho baby greeted the Duke of York, who extolled tho activities of the legion and mentioned that its decennary would be fittingly celebrated on July 1. The Prince of Wales sent a letter suggesting that the Poppy Day fund give £20,000 a year to the legion's pension fund.

General Gouraud lecalled the glories of the Gallipoli landing and pointed out regarding the absence of a tribute to the British Army in General Foch's memoirs that this book did not even compliment Foch's own staff. Nevertheless, the Generalissimo often verbally praised the British soldiers.