ASHMEAD BARTLETT'S LECTURE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16604, 27 April 1916, Page 6

ASHMEAD BARTLETT'S LECTURE.

" WITH THE ANZAOS AT THE DAR-

DANELLES{'^

To 'say that the:matter, of ~Mr'Ashmead Bartlett's; lecture; as delivered to an' appreciative : audiencei, at the Opera House, lust .eyening^is oC; especial, lh•tQrMt.to":the;:p,^pplef^''''tiiiV/po.ihinion, • is."' m'ferelr-::--^-^-sia't€t*s-: aii;V:dfeyious fact. " With ~;Alhzacs..•Wat,--the : Dardan-' elles" is; a whieli must, per.force., compel the deep interest -of every- loyal-New Zealander; because it'relates to an event, or series jof'events;; in- whicli '.those of pur flesh and blppd, those .near and dear ;to our* hearts, 'proved their ability to endure,; to; fight^iye,./even to the death—in accordance; withthe highest' .traditions' <if therace from which ■tKey •-spraaK•::■-"■■•^o\^^ect'^•rerI.can. tell ub any- mm-* ; than we^already: know; as : to the heroic .service/and .noble < selfrsacri,fice:oif theirieh who fought through the .ill-etar red Gallipott campaign. But a competent observer < like- Mrf Ashmead BafTlett.'lwlio was^^ practically from^irst ; t6 last art eye-witness of the-operation's bpthon land, and .sea, is at-least able -to-make .us more intimately- familiar with' the conditions under: which our then and> the . gallant comrades with whom they/fought were caJled upon:lto make; his to r.y and w/m ■ abidihg fame .Herein' ivm: the value of Mr AshnieadBartlett's lecture, and if is; safe to saj that all thos'i who.attended the Operfi ;House last evening Jett the .r-buildiri& with a iniich,;ftilled knowledge "thar' they had hitherto/b6criv able to glean of the .campaign-Tr-ijts purpose, its pov-;?ibilifcieß/;its;.-;ai(&cultie's,-.:;;an'd- the. circuinetances Vmaking \ for its' ', failure -in so far a,s.the non-attammentof its actual' objective is cbhcernecl.f 51akin<» no pretence to ;.the .Dossession of orator^ ical qiiaJificfttions, Mr Aslim^Rd Bartlett to icll^ iiv an: ihstruc--tidhal fashion, a plain; nnvarnished tale, .:.\^:w?thb.ut\":=^atfem|)titt-;":in' the slightest .degree to; touch the emotion oz" firo tile enthusiasm of his audience. The interest in his story i s wonderf v lly enhanced: by the very nne series ■of pic_ to res, ; photographs; pf > the-, actual scenes of whicn wP hayecheard spJnjuch, .with which" he illiistrates 4iis lecture. , In. cpno^jion, it; is pleasing 'to be !able to \ v->iar.k; that.'Mr.; Bartlett preceded Irfs ]co fcurevby an "optimistic forecast of !iw!s*^'in7jj events" in' the Fear East.