The Story of Anzac.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1740, 15 April 1916, Page 3

The Story of Anzac.

AVe will look forward with, interest to the full text of Sir Charles Monro's Gallipoli evacuation despatch,' of which some features are 1 cabled co-day. Meanwhile it is well to note one or two items of the brief summary. We have already had abundant expert testimony as to the terrible toll that winter would haee taken, and the impossibility of holding on against the great Austrian howitzers that were being mounted, once the Suvla failure had prevented there being cut oft'. JJut the revelation that one day of the blizzard, the first breath of winter, of which we had had some account, cost the forces 200 deaths from exposure in the Suvla trenches, and ten thousand sick is finite sufficient justification, if anything beyond the unfavourable military situation owing to the terrain were needed, for the decision come to.