STATEMENT BY PREMIER

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

STATEMENT BY PREMIER

REASON FOR DELAY

VERIFICATION OF NAMES

(By Telegraph.) (Special to Chronicle.)

o , . TE KUITI, May 5. bpeaking at Otorohanga to-day in regard to the wounded casualties at th«_ Dardanelles, Mr. Massey said that the news tha,t had been received on the previous day had brought sorrow to many homes in the Dominion, but it was sorrow mingled with pride at the part that our men were taking, and pride in the fact that they 'were doing so well. (Applause.) Right throughout New Zealand, as in other parts of the Empire, he continued, there ,was a determination to see the war through to its very end, and to secure a victory whatever it might cost. (Cheers) He referred to the many evidences of German frightfulness and brutality tha-t had occurred during the war as giving an idea of how we should be governed if, by any chance —he did not think there was the slightest chance—Germany was victorious. 1-he idea was unthinkable, but he asked them to reflect how much we owed to-day to the courage of our soldiers the determination of oiir citizens, and the foresight of the men who controlled the destinies of the Empiro. - (Applause.) , , , In alluding to the necessity for more men, the Prime Minister said that he appealed to the manhood of the cou ;- try, to those who were not kept at home by family ties or duties—and there were thousands of such—to register their jiames, so that when they were called upon they might be ready to go into camp to train for playing then- part in the defence oi the Em. pire. (Hear, hear.)