OUR BOYS IN FRANCE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7740, 24 June 1916, Page 1

OUR BOYS IN FRANCE.

THE '“SUP-PRESS ” CAMPAIGN. TOLD AFTER A MONTH. LONDON, May 4. “Well, lam surprised.” That was the greeting this morning’s papers got from New Zealanders in London. There, at great length, headlined, “Anzacs Arrive in France,” “Ready for Anything.” For these large type announcements tell what “everybody knows,” and what has been known for a month past. Why this happening has been so “wropt” in mystery Heaven and the Censor alone know. Nearly a month ago there appeared in a London weekly a detailed account of their arrival in Marseilles. The editor of the weekly was, it is true, arraigned by the Censor, but in the end publication wasn’t stopped, for, as the editor said, quite pertinently, all he published had appeared in French journals, and if in France why not England? But, as we know, Censors have strange geographical limitations. It is on a par with the case of the British unit in Russia, of which I wrote a couple of months ago. That piece of news in an evening paper here which, as it concerned New Zealand I pounced upon, appeared in that daily alone —by accident, who knows? Even the news that our boys are really in the firing-line on the Western front is no news, for at the clubs here there have been New Zealanders for the past week, some of them on sick leave, poor fellows! And no wonder, since they walked into a blizzard in la Belle France. Those who were sent, to this “Blighty” were glad to he here, for they were clever enough to come in with our first burst of summer sun and warmth. Says one paper: “Shortly after the last New Zealanders arrived in France the new troops were given a section of the British front to occupv. Upon the day of their entry the Germans hoisted a board bearing the words, ‘Welcome Australians!’ A few days later, at another place, the Germans exhibited this notice: ‘Australians, go away home; you are good fellows; we are Saxons, and have no quarrel with you.’ ” One wonders whether these all-knowing all-kultured Germans knew the difference between New Zealanders and Australians. Anyhow, they got a New Zealand answer to their spider invitation—a haka up-to-. date.