THE BRITISH CHARACTER

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5

THE BRITISH CHARACTER

EXAMPLE TO YOUTH. STORY OF CAPT. OATES. Twenty-fifth Anniversary Commemorated. Press Association—.jopyrrglit. Received 11 a.m. London, March 14. Paying tribute to that very gallant gentleman, Captain Oates, at a service at Colchester Garrison Church, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Captain Oates’s death—he sacrificed his life in the snow, so that other members of the Scott expedition might live—Admiral Sir Edward Evans said:— '*l was then a young lieutenant, second in command of the Scott expedition, it fell to me to break the news and keep alive, for the youth of the nation the story of that adventure. I believe Captain Oates’s heroism inspired many in the Great War, and it certainly helped many women to open that tell-tale telegram from the War Office. "We older ones who have ideals have sadly watched the sun of Locarho set and have seen humanity make a great gamble for peace; but the gamble has been lost, because fear, Jealousy, greed, revenge, internal dissension and insincerity have conquered the Christian impulse. I believe that the old character of our race is still in the boys and girls, but it needs firing up by examples such as that given by Captain Oates.”