THE GALLIPOLI LANDING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15496, 27 April 1918, Page 2

THE GALLIPOLI LANDING.

TRIBUTE TO THE 29th DIVISION,

(Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, April 25

‘■'Some of us liavc lived to curse the word ‘Anzac,’ ” declared Capt. Turnbull, D.5.0., in proposing a toast at the Anzac dinner to-night. “We New Zealanders and Australians may have done a great deal at Anzac, but. as a matter of fact, we did absolutely nothing compared with the incomparable 29th Division—(cheers)—who landed ,-at Heiles. There are some of you who, like myself, saw Cape Hellos a week or ten days after the dear old 29th landed It was something that can hardly he realised, much less described. lam proud to belong to the same nation, although I am a Now Zealander, and they are Britcus. I don't for a moment belittle our landing at Anzac, but compared with the work of the 29ths, whore barbed wire was run out deep into -the sea, and the water ran red with blood—well, I take my hat off to those fellows. (Cheers.) We of the Anzacs may have done well, as I have said, but we have grown ashamed to sec our deeds extolled from end to end of the Empire, while the incomparably greater service of such English troops as I have mentioned goes practically unnoticed,” (Cheers, and prolonged applause.)