THE HONGKONG DAILY
PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY --26TH, 1919.
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GEN - BIRDWOOD ON THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN. MR CHURCHILL'S REMINISCENCES.
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portance of which éven yet it is not pos sible to judge. What the effect would have been on the Russian situation, al ready beginning to crumble, on the Ru manian situation, on the Greek and the Serbian situation, if Bulgaria bad per- six months
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for us, so
(cheers) came into the field as a new factor, but if Bulgaria had changed over before we had that new million of men available to take their part in the struggle, it might well be that disaster of an irretrievable character would have overtaken our cause.
earlier than he did. is almost încalcul able Cortain it is that the injuries abich
that campaign,
airuld have been ing interesting references to the Gallipoli ich we should have experienced dur cazopaign were made at a luncheon given formidable and dificult, by the Australian and New Zealand incomparably
greater even than they Luncheon Club in London to General Bir wore The first British Armies raised by W. R. Birdwood and Mr. Winston the genius and prestige of Lord Kitchener Churchill, or December 16th Sir James Mills presided over a large attendance, and proposed the health of the guests
General Birdwood, who was received with enthusiasm, said there were no words in which he could, adequately de scribe the valour and magnificent work done by the troups on the Gallipoli
The graves at Anzac Cove are now Peninsula. He referred not only to the under the protection of the British and Anzac troops,
but to others, especially Anano troops. (Cheers.) In the end, the the glorious. 29th Division (cheers) long arm of the British Empire has had for whom they had, always had the 'most nothing denied to it. But
Agree with heartfelt admiration.
The gallantry, General Birdwood that there are scarcely devotion,
and determination of the troops any graves of the hundreds of thousands there created a reputation which lasted that lie about the battlefields of the them throughout the whole of the war.teit war upon which we may with more (Hoar, heat.) In his first despatch after conpdence write the letters Not in vain the landing, Sir Ian Hamilton-that gal- than on those graves at Anzac. (Cheers.) the herculean
was c
cautious tread, and it is too ant and distinguished to whom History comes along with ponderous, (cheers)-described the Navy as
for us to appraise the true propor both their father and mother; and in- tions of the events in the great war. deed it was. They were dependent on Like a range of mountains, you have to the Navy, and never once did the Navy get a long way away from them to see fail them. Indeed, ho might almost say their relative sizes; but I am certain of that, having looked after the troops all this this much I will venture to predict day, the Navy proceeded to tuck them in at night. (Laughter.)
task
A BAD DAY.
It was a very sad day for them when they had to leave the peninsula. It was obvious they had been unable to achieve the immediate object aimed at, but he was confident that when history came to eum up the operations of the war fall justice would be done to the efforts of the
Bir
Hamilton,
that thus, whoever they were, whore over they stood, who tried their best to make that great enterprise succeed will bo those who have least to fear from the coming step. of historical judgment. (Heas, bear.) And surely the
180 commander, there)ect a task which perhaps no human being could achieve, having to carry on this great minor operation with Mediterranoru Expeditionary dearth an inevitable dearth of so much that was needed, having to take (Cheers.) They might take it what was left over after the prime ríosds Force. that those who fell did not die in vain. of France and Flanders had been dealt (Hear, hear.)
with, never losing heart, never despair- "Remember" (General Birdwood-con- tinued) it was there on the Gallipoli ing of the enterprise, but fighting on Peninsula that the flower of the Turkish and struggling on in spite of every die- We appointment and anxiety-surely when ariny was well-nigh annihilated. We the account is completed, and when his struck so close to the heart of the Outatory has done her work, among those who man Empire that it was only natural that her best troops should be sent to tried their best his name will ever bear
an honoured place." (Cheers.) meet us, and we knew at the time how
ThOUR DREAMS' HAVE COME TRUE.": reinforcements and new divisions looked
The war was won. (Cheers.) All our with dread at being sent to what they caled the slaughter house, a fitting dream had come true. We had come to tribute to the fighting of the troope the end of the long, long trail, And there, who were never too well off for what a victory! It filled our bearta with ammunition. I think, therefore, we may pride and with thankfulness that we had time and belonged to such take oredit, not only for the military lived in such
(Cheers) When we looked back but & face. destruction we were able to for starting the
think that endy it was for foreigners Referring to the achievements of the the British Empire was only a figmoht
imagination, to think that we
we were. Australians and the New Zealanders in the France, General Birdwood said that the
achieve, of the Turkish down of the moralo on, the time before the war we saw how
(Cheers.)
four ovet to case, alothfulness, luxury, Jatty politics-(laughter) that we great traditions which had been butained were great people whose climax bad at Gallipoli were not only
but enhanced; and wherever soldierly been reached at the battles of Trafalgar were now deeds were spoken of throughout the and Waterloo, and that we
which slope world as names stood higher than those passing agreeably down the of the Australian and the New Zealand so many other great empires and nations ed. He referred briefly to the difficul- had trod. He did not blame these foreign tics of demobilisation, and said this nations, friends, neutrals, or focs, for But what a! This war bad' might be the most critical period we had their great miscalculation. yet had to face. During the time to miscalculation it wasl come they could best hold their men by proved the soundness of the British race three methods-employment, education, at
and entertainment, and everything posto point. There had been no teat
they had
I not been subjected; but sible w
was being done so far as the Authers had been no test at which the stock been found absolutely sound tralian Forces were concerned in these had not
And of all the tests of the directions. (Üheers.)
institutions nothing.
Cheers.)
Mr. Churchill, responding to the toast, soundness of our said the fame of the Anzace was heard could equal that proof which was given through the world-wide turmoil and when the great communities-the Domin tumalt of this Breat
struggle, and there ions of the Crown over the seas-10 was no land in any part of the globe, many thousands of mile from the area enjoying absolute freedom, not.
the part they of apprised of
which was
in all senses ao absolute tactical
had played. Everyone here knew the under no pressure of any
debt we all owed to the distinguisbod
commander of the Anzac Corps. Few find, but with a pure spontaneous feel generals had ever been more beloved by he obeying no call but that of the the men they lod. That was due in bloed, without a moment's hesitation, General Birdwood's case, not only to the entered a quarrol as to the beginning of high material attainments and aptitude which they could not necessarily have which he possessed, but to his constant been consulted, hastened to pour out
for the needs and intereste sonal well-being of the solite and par- their blood, to pour out their treasure, (Hear, hear.)
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and raise themselves in the struggle af j... arms to a foremost place. That was one! I cannot help being drawn," Mr. of the great and amazing proofs of the Churchill proceeded, as General Bird soundness of British institutions which wood was, to dwell on the episode of the the great war had revealed. (Cheers.) attacks upon the Gallipoli Peninsula. A To Mr. Hughes, whose heart had from mournful
splendour plays about that the first moment to the last been con great operation. The feeling of what vulged with the intense desire to see our might have been is intensely painful Empire victorious in this struggle, he thear, bear) to all who have lived said, "Now we have got together, we have! (Cheers.) Ho through that event. It will be the want to go on together.
der of posterity that when an operation had just come back from the General of that kind was launched and under- Election, stid, though he did not know taken there was not from every part of what secret the ballot boxes contained, hå the Allied world a universal movement were they contained nothing that was! to carry it through to a triumphant con- not in the fullest sympathy with the idea clusion: (Hoar, hear.) But when we of Imperial unification.(Cheers.) turn our minds from what might have STRATEGIC EXY OF THE WORLD been achieved to what actually wan General Sir Ian Hamilton, propwing achieved, then we find much, as General the health of the chairman, said it was Birdwood bag pointed out, that may, com with a thrill of great pride that all who fort us and oven encourage us After fought in Gallipoli heard that our Fleet we missed the biggest thing in the was sailing through the Dardanelles, and hoar) but although we did that our flag might now be waving from
We adored in gaining the astonishing Barri Behr. That rugged rock might be
pot
results which would have Bowed from a more important place than German success, the event was one which, from East Africa or New Guines or Palestine, almost every point of view, was fruitful, and he said to them with all earnestness and played a definite part in the attainThink twice before you allow a second ment of the fiant result,
"handa.” (Ches(a)!
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08344
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22490
3.520
12238
140
12395
700
24830
140
07005
700
19143
140
09092
10
700
23088
140
23174
11
330
13939
140
07221
12
360
20363
40
140
14378
17
360
27676
41
140
18977
14
350
05864
49
140
16370
15
250
00065
43
140
07104
16
36-0
11049
140
10083
17
360
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14532
18
280
22206
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25934
290
12900
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04167
280
02913
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01176
280
02040
24932
280
04018
04820
280
11710
06365
230
06701
11638
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00924
50
28512
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02108
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