New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 17 September 1918, Page 5

New Zealand

CASUALTY LIST.

Killed in action. Jones, R. S.. Sergeant, England. Knox, R. Corporal, Wellington. Gordon, D. Private, Hatuma. Petersen, A. C., Corporal, Otaki. Hogg, E. A. Private. Opoliki. McTavish, R. Corporal, Kohinui. Short, T. Corporal, Wanganui. Connolly. tP. Private. Ireland. Percy, L. C. F. Private, Petone. Powell, P. C. A!.. Private, Petone. Todd. S. E., Private, Fielding. Archer, C. R.. Carterton. Lees, J. E. L., Private, Gishorne. Maunder, R. 15., Private, Gisborne. Robertson, H. E., Hants. Sommer, C., Private, Masterton. Warran, R. A., Private Taihape. Webb, E. I),. Private, Foxton. Wilkins. G., L.-Cpl. Wellington. Gray, H. R., Private, Scotland. Hoi lings, W., Private, Sontli Norsewood . Hendrick, E. J., Private, Tariki. Rowland, E. 1). N., Private, Ha were. Harris W. E., Lance-Corporal, Pahia-

ina. Me Aliev, A. 8., Private, Wellington. Alnlmanche, H. >?., Private, Otaki

Rail way., . Preston. T. L.,' Lance-Corporal, Mann-

tabi. / Smitlie, F. 8., Private, Foxton, Sullivan, M,, Private. Hastings. Taylor, W. J., Private, Wellington. Thompson, O. M., Private, Stratford Mardon, L. A. J., Private, Welling-

ton. .Rosanoski. F,, Private, Wangehn. Obrien, J. J., Lance-Corporal, Ireland. Waterson, H. R. Private, Pukearnlie, Prince, H., Private, Apiti. Reported Wounded, now reported Killed in Action: Butler, L. H. G., Corporal, Wanganui Reported Died of Wounds: Roberts. J. M., Private, Eketahuua Cotter, J., Lance-Corporal, Opatu. Ruff, J., Rifleman, Makino.

Missing; Larsen, H., Corporal, Hihitahi. Guinea, H. E.. Private, Wellington

Nutsey, C., Private, Wellington. Cfoldsborough, H. 0., Rifleman, Has*

tings. Laiond, T. ? Rifleman; Manaia. Correction—Previously reported wounded now reported not wounded: Cann, C. Private, Putiki. Astbury, E. H. W., Private, Wanga-

Wbitham, I. T., Private, Mangatoki. Gray, A. D., Private, Okato. Gibbon. F., Lance-Corporal, Stratford,Wounded, admitted to Hospital: McLean, H, J., Lance-Corporal. Hawera. Cameron, A. W., Corporal, Stratford. Clements, R. W., Private, Wanganui. Slightly Wounded, Remaining with 1 Unit: Cummings, S. H.. Private. Waitara. Fake, H. (M.M.), Lance-Corporal. Palmerston North.

THE EDITORIAL MISSION,

CHEERY MESSAGE HOME.

CARRY ON, ALL WILL BE WELL*

Per Press Association

Wellington, September 16.

The following message has been received from Mr Fred Pirani, one of the press delegates visiting Britain at the invitation of the Imperial authorities.

The editorial mission returned tf Loudon to-day (13th) after an extensive tour of France and Flanders. The New Zealand delegates—and, indeed, the whole party of overseas editors—have been greatly impressed by what they were privileged to see and to learn on and behind the histerie western front. We have seen the great war machine working at high pressure, a marvel of stupendous and complicated organisation, running with seeming miraculous smoothness and precision. We have seen onr splendid men at work, talked with them about their experiences, listened with delight to their eagerly-told tales of some other fellows’ dauntless valour—never by. any chance do they enthuse about what they themselves have don©—and discovered new inspiration in their cheerful optimism. Here and there, in the semi-confidential privacy of mess room or billet one heard whispers of sins of omission and commission, stories of somebody’s alleged blunders, but these are matters which, if they do not lack foundation in fact, must be left to be ‘.‘-washed up” after th? war. Meantime they are but incidents more or less inevitable in happening* in the world-redeeming enterprise to which we have set' onr hands. When we left New Zealand th* Hun was shaking his mailed fist at a threatened Paris, and making the world gasp lest by his prodigal onslaught he should wrest the lengeovetod Channel from the heroic de-

f fenders. The spring carnival of slaughter was in full swing, and the issue was still in doubt. What ha? happened* in the interim yon in New Zealand know. Our gallant troops have ■sprung from the defensive to tne offensive. They have swept hack the Hans, and are still pushing forward. Thousands upon thousands of prisoners caged behind the Allied lines testify to the success of their heroic operations.

Paris, the beautiful, is still the undisturbed capital of La Belle- France; the Channei ports still fly the Allied flags ; America has continued to make good ; Britannia still rules the waves ; and the end. though not yet, is nearer than—but there I’m neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet. This thought ' I ( . au say, for it is written large on all that we have seen—unto us is te be victory. Everywhere—in the base camps, in the billets behind the line-s. in the battered and blood-stained trenches, oipibe crowded loads, ereiywhere amidst this, welter of blood and pain; aye, even in the hospitals, on the wan, drawn faces of the battletorn heroes, is written “I nto us is to he the victory.” Why? Because the salvation.of humanity and the preservation of democracy demand it; because right must prevail over might ; because, despite,, our national sins and shortcomings, ,we are in this fight on Hie side of God, and. under His almighty captaincy defeat is unthinkable. No man could walk over the ground hallowed by the life-blood of so many of our kinfolk 1 without being touched by the otoawhelming sadness of it all. AV affront near at hand looks so terribly" different. It is frightful, ft is ghastly; yet it is wonderfully and awfully grand. It calls the imagination to the soul-stirring harmony of the Dead March as it “light ho played hv a thousand hands, followed hv the Glory Song as sung by all the sons of men jhAiniou with the countless choirs of Ifeaven. That is why we editors have come hack from the western Loot with the song of victory on our bps. We have been where things petty and little pale into insignificance; where onlv the one big thing counts; where the brotherhood of man, welded in toe furnace of pah*and suffering, finds its fullest and truest expression and where, in the inscrutable wisdom the Omnipotent there is being worked out a new and better order of things. Our message to you all is: “Carry on; all will be well.”