THE EUROPEAN WAR.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5348, 3 February 1916, Page 5

THE EUROPEAN WAR.

SECOND EDITION.

SHAPING IMPERIAL POLICY.

VOICE OF DOMINIONS.

Electric Telezranb —Press Association.

Copyright. (Received tliis day at 11.25 a.m,.) London, This Day. ‘‘The Daily Telegraph,’’ commenting on the Commoners’ luncheon, wonders what will be the Mother Country’s virtue in her care for the Dominions which have now aroused their devotion, and he urges statesmen to repay to the fullest extent when the Dominions claim the right at the Imperial Council to shape the Imperial policy.

THE FIERCEST FIGHTERS.”

KUDOS FOR AUSTRALIANS.

Auckland. This Day. Major Brereton, who was in charge of the men who returned by the Rotorua, states that the conduct of all had been excellent, and they had a most enjoyable voyage. The two bright diversions were at Capetown and Hobartj. Major Brereton was injured in an attack at Krithia in May, but returns fully restored in health. He hopes soon to return to the scene of hostilities.

Speaking of the last occasion he was in action he said it was the first time New Zealanders had been in a stereotyped attack, till then they had been fighting at Anzac. and on being taken to Cape Holies with a battalion of Australians were sent forward under shell fire. At first their losses were not great, but when they advanced from their trenches the Turks cut them down like rabbits. Alajor Brereton describes the Australians as the fiercest fighters on the face of the earth, and added: “I think our men do as much as the Australians.”

WOUNDED RETURNING

BATCH AT AUCKLAND. Auckland. This Day. The Rotorua arrived at daybreak with seven officers and 196 men of the New Zealand forces returning invalided. They will I»e given a public reception in the Town Hall. The Southerners, 130 in number, were given a motor drive in the afternoon. The returned soldiers are mostly wounded who were under treatment in England and are thoroughly lieel-tby-looking. There are no crutches or missing limbs, but several cases in which the men have lost an eye. Captain Hardham. who won the V.C. in South Africa, landed at Hobart. There arrived by the Rotorua two English officers to'join the New Zealand Staff Captain H. A. Cooper, of the Fifth Lancers, who served six months in Flanders early in the war and won the Russian war cross: and Captain R. Neave. of the Essex Regiment. who was at the original landing on V Beach, Cape Helles. He is a machine gun expert.