WONDERFUL ANZACS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11595, 13 January 1916, Page 1

WONDERFUL ANZACS.

LORD KITCHENER'S PRAISE. WHAT HE TOLD SIR GEORGE REID By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrig'ht. (Received January 13, 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 12. Mr O. S. Soniers Cocks, presiding at Sir George Raid's meeting in Gaston Hall, said that Sir George Reid was welcomed as a representative of the wonderful Australians and New Zealanders who had wrought deeds more marvellous than any ever recorded in the military history of any country in the world. Lord Kitchener, after his visit to Gallipoli, had told Mr Walter Long that although he had had access to reports and confidential letters and photographs that he did not realise until he had visited tho spot the difficulties as they really were. S:r George Reid declared that his platform consisted of three plauks—first, war; second, the whole war; and third, nothing but tho war. He added that Lord Kitchener had told him that ho could not have believed that conditions at Gallipoli were so terribly difficult and of so overwhelming a nature could he surmounted.