WON IMMORTAL GLORY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20347, 6 May 1915, Page 5

WON IMMORTAL GLORY.

A THRILLING STORY

Received 12.45 a.m., May 6. LONDON. May 5. The "Star"' declares that the Canadian recording officer is a new brand of "Eye-Witness," and regrets, that the gallant British-regiments were hot blessed with such chronicler's in the days of Mons and Le Gateau. The story of this fiercer furnace not only breathes the names of 'regiments which fought and diedj but proclaims the names of cplonels and majors who died as .Here-, ward, died—in a ring of foes. When will 'their\ glory'fade ? Not so Ion"- as a jjatch Of the British earth is trodden by.'British feet! .The Canadians had won more—-immortal glory. There was no soothing syrup in the Canadian story, ho pap, piffle, or -puerile optimism, no glossing" over of the dark, desperate agony in which Canadian courage stood like a rock of granite;