THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 8

THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN

TRIBUTES TO ANZACS OFFICIAL HISTORY ISSUE (Received Nov. H, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4. The British official history of the military operations in Egypt and Palestine in JDI7-18 pays generous tributes to the Anzacs’ participation in the fighting, while regretting their inability to participate in the ultimate victory. Referring to the capture of Aleppo, tile book says the British awaited the arrival of the Australian Mounted Division which marched out from Damascus on October 27, 1018, but; did not reach Aleppo. Before it arrived home the last shot of the campaign had been fired.

Referring to Lord Alleuby’s advantages over the enemy, the history says: “His Australian troops, for example, were men of the original independent type, not nurtured in the traditions of British military discipline, and inclined to he impatient thereof, yet their reliance upon Lold Allonby ivas complete.”