ENGLISH PRAISE OF AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIERS.
TROOPS HAVE EXTRAORDINARY MILITARY QUALITIES.
(A. & N.Z.) (Ree. April 28, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. The "Manchester Guardian," in a leader, says:— "Australasia, proportionately to population, is the most accomplished and formidable power in the world. All ranks of Australian and New Zealand troops have extraordinary military qualities. General Monash is one of the most skilful of the Allied generals. His staff and divisional commanders displayed exceptional capacity in the encirclement and capture of Villers Bretonneux. This was a masterpiece of design and execution. "We should acknowledge frankly that the Australasian troops are superior to Great Britain's on the average. This is due to the Australasian social, economic, and political life, which is more favourable for the production of high military self-reliance and resource than our obsolete village feudalism and crude factory system. Australia possesses an army of skilled veterans, with as many glorious names on their colours as the British regiments which fought throughout the Napoleonic wars."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1623, 28 April 1919, Page 7
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163ENGLISH PRAISE OF AUSTRALASIAN SOLDIERS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1623, 28 April 1919, Page 7
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