GALLIPOLI.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1920, Page 6

GALLIPOLI.

THE NEW ZEALANDERS* PART. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY. REVIEW CONTINUED. (Continued from Saturday's Issue.) Afterwards the sorely tried and exhausted New Zealanders, or, at least, the remnant left of them, were relieved by the 6th Loyal North Lancashires and the sth Wiltahires, who were attacked by the Turks and ejected with great loss. During the battle here the doctors and ambulance men were dealing with the hundreds and thousands of men in an advanced position in a gully, where they were under fire all the time, and where the agony of the wounded was added to. Here Colonel Geo. Home (then Captain), of New Plymouth, greatly distinguished himself, many of the surviVors saying that he qualified during those terrible hours for the V.C. i times out of number.

Two chapters are-devoted to-a description of the careful preparations made for the evacuation, and of that splendid-ly-planned and brilliantly successful •operation. It was with curiously mixed feelings that the men who had fought so hard and gallantly on the rocky gully sides of the peninsula contemplated the evacuation. Says Major Waite: Officers who knew the state of affairs were greatly relieved at the decision, but sick at heart now that the blow ■had fallen. To give up Anzac and all thai it meant! To leave the place where our brothers and friends were lying! Out there in No Man's Land graves were; marked where men had fallen, but no cross had been erected, and now the chance was slipping away. Men crept out at night to pay their last visits to those lonely graves. One soldier, writing home, voiced the undisguised emotion of I many:—

"My goodness, mother, how it did go to our hearts—after all we had gone through—how we had slaved and fought —fought and slaved again—and then to think that we had been sizzled in the heat, tortured by flies and thirst, and later nearly frozen to death. It was hard to be told we must give it up. But it was not our wasted energy and sweat that really grieved us. In our hearts it was to know we were leaving our dead comrades behind. That was what every man had in his mind. We thought, too, of you people in New Zealand and what you might think of U3. Believe me, it is far harder to screw one's courage up for running away than it is to screw it up for an attack!" In the final chapter the author describes the return to Anzac of the New Zealand forces—represented on this occasion by the Canterbury Mounted Rifles—"the men of New Zealand were there at the start—here they are as the victors at the end." The full significance of that now famous word "Anzac" is very happily and eloquently set forth in the final sentences of a book every page of which should be read by New Zealanders with pride—and gratitude to those who first made such a record possible:—

And if Anzac means suffering, a hopeless longing, aching hearts, and a keen sense of loss- to many in this land of ours its gain cannot be measured—for the miner at Quinn's Post did not sweat at the tunnel-face in the interests of self; the middies of the picket-boats and the men of the trawlers were not working for dividends; the nurses on those hospital ships did not toil the long nights through for praise or notoriety; the women who waited so bravely and patiently at home in hourly dread of the telegraph boy, thought nothing of themselves—one and all make their willing sacrifices for the common good. And that is the message of Anzac to the people of New Zealand: Place the interests of the community before the in-. terests of self, follow in the footsteps of the early pioneer, and make New Zealand a sweeter place for the little children.

THE HEROIC ARTHUR CARBINES. In the concluding chapter, Major Waite tells the story of the heroic death of Arthur Carbines, the New Plymouth lad who left his business and music to take up the rifle when the call came. "Disregarding the terrors and the dangers on the crest of Chunuk, he died tragically endeavoring to rescue the body of his colonel—the gallant Malone." The appendices contain some interesting and valuable information and there are some useful diagrams and a map of the trench systems. Altogether it is a notable book, and Bhould be read and treasured by everyone who calls New Zealand his home.