THE AUSTRALASIANS' ENDURANCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13795, 16 June 1915, Page 5

THE AUSTRALASIANS' ENDURANCE.

Sydney, June 14.

A Light Horse officer writes that it had been said the bravery shown at Gallipoli might have been the valour of ignorance, but having lived with our boys for nine months he is convinced that they will stick to it to the last man. There will be no" breaking strain. There is no doubt that in the first battle they did suffer to a .greater extent than would have been vie case with trained .soldiers, through their reckless impetuous bravery. The nature of the country precluded control by officers and each individual "had to act on his own initiative. "