RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15973, 15 November 1919, Page 3

RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA.

QENEEAL MONASH INTERVIEWED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 115. Generals Birdwood, Monash, McGlynn and 'Wisdom, together with 250 other Australian officers and men, with many dependents, are sariiug for Australia aboard the Ormonde on Saturday. The Australian Press Association interviewed Sir John JVlonash, who said; fc l am jolly glad to find myself on the eve of departure. I have been away from home five years, but the la sit nine months were much more strenuous than the four years of war. Demobilisation proved a stupendous task. It would be difficult enough in peace time, with the help of a, trained staff, to transport a city of 200,000 people to the Antipodes in nine months. We succeeded in completing the bulk of the embarkation in eight 'months. In enlisting the sympathy of the nien I followed the principle of conduct which animated me throughout the war, based on experience. If you give the Australian a fair deal he will do anything. The confidence of men and officers "was the bedrock of the success of the Australians in war. One ia almost tempted to think that as against tho terrible losses Australia had suffered there are very substantial benefits in the moral uplift and vask educational experiences gained by the young men of Australia.”