THE ANZACS

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13850, 9 November 1918, Page 5

THE ANZACS

AMERICAN. APPBEdATIOJI.. j

A warm tribute of admiration; and friendliness towards ova* Anzacs is contained tin an article published by the New York American.

"The exploits of the Aus'tiralian, and New Zealand fighting man have become household tales in American homes. Fromi tihe day" when tihe An zacs forced a landing on, the Gallipoii Pemnoula: downi to the present year soaiixiely a week has passed without some fresh and well-deserved euloghun of some nefvv heroic exploit of iifae> mien who have cx>me from, the' furthest off of England's colonies to' fight under tihe flag of the Mother CouoMttry. . I

<■ "Americans have not been, slow to appreciate British valour or French valour, but liib may be said 'without any disparagement that we Americans have ai peculiar feeling oi admiration and ; of friendliness; towards the ,Anzaos, which •is perhaps shared only by; ti^ trpopsi of owr lteiighbojur,. Canada.

"For, one reason, ..thereis ,a striking lakemieß?, in tihought, in mammer, in. carriage, and in. physique between the Anzap figjhting. men and our own Amiericaji troop©. Aged veteran® who have ..lived long enough to. see both say that th^. similarity between tihe Ausfcr-aljian and. New,, Zealatid troops and those, western!, oom, posedtifcte, arinieSl which broke the Confederacy in two A.under the leadership of Gmntand "^hoanas is. very striking. . - . . "The same deqnoora.tia comradeship betweemi officensi and men,; something, too, of the same carelessness as to the niceties of military etiquette, and the sain© individual courage and resourcefulness 1.; .'the, same coolnessi and the same ability to take care of .themselves, in ticklish predioaiments. that characterised tihe. , Westerm soldiers anl our own great war, also ohiaracterise..these fighting men;, .of thei Southern Hemispheric. -

"The likeness between the. democraibio instatution® of Australia, amd New. Zealand *amd our Oftvn demooraitnc institutions; the similarity, between the AnzaC: soldiers and our. owm> soldiers, and the- naitural bond of sympathy, between peoples entirely free, have all helped to cause the Aineriican people to look upon, thei Anaaos with feelings of admiration and of pride tihat were almost persotnal. Notihing was more certain tihaaii that when O'lir troops* arrived in France tihe strongest feeling" of comradeship woul'i spring up betweeni them and their Anzao Allies."