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GALLIPOLI AS IT IS
-1915-
On April 25, 120,000 Australian, New Zea- land and British troops landed in the face of 275,000 Turkish troops with strong defences. Gallipoli was evacuated by the British eight months Inter. Total British killed, wounded and missing 117,549.
ANZAC DAY will long have
for Britons a solemn signi- fleance, but to Australians and New Zealanders particularly it is especially notable late in the history of their young nations.
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It was on the Turkish peninsula on April 25, 1915, that the Austral- ians and the New Zealanders came to be tested for the first line in battle. It was hern. they earned their right stand as adult bations in the British Commonwealth.
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Why will these Dominion warriors r they were to suddenly return to pensula?
The years have healed the wounds, time has covered the scars of trench And shellhole on Gallipoli. The wreck nge that dotted the coastlines has
most disappeared.
Apart from the Turks, who are developing once more a lazy agricul ture, the greater part of Gallipoli has become a hallowed land of cenieteries
NOTES OF THE DAY
SIDE-STEPPERS
The
ken who fre gulding Europe's, and the world's, destiny to-day
or
to-
PETTY OFFENCES The question of fitting the punishment to the crime has minds so impervious to shock as to must have steady hands, again arisen loeally, following be beyond the reach of confusion. criticism regarding the disparity and very clever feet. They must in Police Court sentences when discern in detail each movement of the penalties for major and the men and nations with whom minor offences are contrasted, they are sparring, must miss In particular, complaint has nothing of the subterfuge been made concerning the com-trickery to which diplomatie antas parative severity of magisterial gonists are professed to resort, and decisions in the
no matter what they hear, see or of un- Case licensed hawkers. The problemspect they must not allow their is admitted to be one of con- backers suffer. We really feel a
tempers to be ruffled for Tear their) siderable difficulty. First and sincere gratitude for the statesmen foremost, due account must be or Europe for, avoiding catastrophe: taken of the jaw which rightly and feel we can trust them the makes unlicensed hawking an better th the crises of the future. offence. Secondly, unlicensed which areas inevitable no hawkers are, without question, morrow's sunrise. It has been said a public nuisance in many parts of diplomats and Governments and of the Colony. Incidentally, a princes of the past that they have great many of these people con-
hustled their people into war. If the unthinkable disaster of armed; tinue to evade the penalty of
strife should ever befall Europe the law by an organised system we could point to a half dozen out- of bribery. This, in itself, con- standing figures of to-day who have stitutes another big problem.desperately striven against it and But when we rule out hawkers have bent all their energies towards who doliberately flout the law removing those causes which ereate and others who manage to es-war risk. We might even go so cape its penalties, there remains far as to say thai, în certain cases, a big class of really poor people, had the leadership not been firm. and the public under complete possessing no skilled knowledge of any kind, to whom hawking into battle, with a weight of public control, fanatics might have plunged offers the only Avenue for opinion behind them and a clamour making enough money with of youth for blood and battle.) which to keep body and soul There have been plenty of excuses together. As one correspondent lately for the drawing of the has put it, these people are try-sword. And for the most part we ing to lead honest lives and, by feel we can say that nations have applying for licences, they are carefully avoided capitalising upon endenvouring
apparent errors of judgment on the to comply with
part of those whose activities have the requirements of the law.sometimes been inimical, This sort Unhappily for-them, only a tithe of side-stepping is clever and de- of those who seek licences are serves applause. But we often won- able to obtain them. It is to be der whether more direct methods presumed that the really deser would not bring better results. ving
most One of these days one of the side. receive consideration; occasionally stippers is going to slip, and all the magisterial sympathy with the cleverness he possesses won't pre- unfortunate is evidenced by though it is only in diplomacy.
vent a spill-and even a beating-
cases
Tecming activity on the famous "V" Boach, during_tho.........
Gallipoli campaign.
Amid the calm and the beauty of pence.
Stand on the sandy beach, Beneath the blue sky, turn from the deeper blue of the unruffled sen to the red dish-brown cliffs.
Experience now a calm as deep as that first shattered by the rattle of machine-guns and the crash of shells 21 years ago.
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THE cliffs splashed with gay wild flowers, shrubs, and grasses. The bench
below the amphitheatres of
Instead of an armada of warships, transports, trawlers, and picket-bonts swarning the seas about the penin- suin, cruising liners and trampa pass peacefully, peacefully enter the Dar- danelles, which was the scene of the beginning of this tragic campaign.
Today Gallipoli's chief interest is In the burial grounds, some of them practically on the beaches where the men whom they commemorate fell.
- All of them are carpeted with myriads of many-buel anemones among the long lines of low bend-
By Keith F. Bean
crumbling sandstone which once formed theatres of death is still market by a grounded lighter, a water-condenser,
Hut most of the litter of the eva ention and retreat has gone, except for an occasional broken pile indicat ing the site of an embarkation jetty.
WRECKED
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stones and white stone walls. Above them rise the memorials to sacrifice In simple alone.
Constantly and lovingly gardeners work in the spring sunshine antil fragrant wallowers and clumps of rosemary contrasting with the enth- bre pines and cypresses which line the walls.
vessels which did not get that far
ran ashore, sunkea HE!
these have been mostly salvaged or they have disintegrated.
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HERE and there among these places that are for ever England, and Are for ever, too, that other England in the southern sens, old English gar-
Have You Ever Examined
TO-DAY
-1936-
A tranquil land of memories
mas-
sive memoriál blocks stand against the sky
you will find rust- ed fragments of shell, scraps of equipment which once the bravest and the strongest wore,
den flowers bloom-marigolds, stocks, phlox, and annpdragons.
Some of them are struggling, tic. The winter has not been a good one. It began with floods and washaways lato snows and frost have delayed many of the blooms. The gardeners have been busy restoring beds and borders, repairing the local rondis, which are the responsibility of the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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THE Tucks také Hittle Interest in these activities-except that their men are thero-te collect Customs duties on wreaths!
the
Turkish women stand by watching tourists. Small boys swarm and are driven off by the police with kicks and fisticuffs.
For the rest, this is a tranquil-land- of memories. The massive memorial blocks stand against the sky, guard- ing the pence, no longer symbols of bitterness and hate. You see them as you approach from the sea, from far out at.sen.
Even
when you land, you find that they and the
cemeteries are the only emphatic marks of man's occupation. If you look, you will find rusted frag ments of shell, scraps of equipment which
once the bravest and the barbed wire, tried
strongest wore, bonus.
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UT these apart and even they do
not obtrude in these gulet days. of spring-Gallipoli is reminiscent of a pleasant Aegean island where time is not, and there is only the sweetness of flowers and the good clean breath of the sea.
Here in this charm tourists pienie and drink Turkish pilsner. It la hard to recall that here men were driven crazy with tearing thirst, were sick with the blood and the sweat and the stench of war and death."
YOUR APPETITE?
I who a it in fruit that Fro
the stuif garnished with hot chocolate sauce.
Have you ever bothered to sit down and make a list of some of the things. you like to eat and sonie of the things you don't like to eat?, I, have, and- here it. is.
LIKES.
KNOW a fully-grown man lovely favour of strawberries, the
Yes, you might as well say that
of beenuse the staple food the millions
who go to Blackpool in It sounds repulsive to me, but this August is pigs trulters and black man has travelled all over the world, puddings and because the workers Baked potatoes in enten most of the cholce things of of South
Wales cat enormous the earth in the most expensive hotels' quantities of "faggots" and restaurants, and his iden of a they regard these ba being the most
to begin with caviare' (too desirable comestibles. ashy, I think-smoked salmon is better) and end up with ice cream possibly compare sacklike with, say, Absurd, of course. How could you and hot chocolate sauce.
mont
Another of his queer fancies Turkish delight washed down with leed water. He goes
bed on it und declares that the mixture helps him to think.
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jackets,
peas,
Hard
ru roes.
Stewed rhubarb.
By- William Pollock
fresh lobster, a slice from the breast of a cold pheasant, a properly evokil. Dover sole?
What do you like to eat? And what don't you like? People apt to say that it depends on how were brought up. Nonsense If that were
so, I should like porridge, tapioca pudding (ug) No, what you like to eat is largely spinach, and sugar in ten,
a question of what you have eaten, which are abominations to me. Why Many of those who flat-footedly say so many dople put sugar in tea that they "late" oysters have either bents me; it completely alters the ever tasted them or else never given taste of it, and I think, as n life them a real chance. It takes a cer long patron of ten-ruins the flavour tain amount of courage to get to of it... just as cream killa the like oysters..
BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
Bloaters. Asparagus.
Roast Chestnuts,
DISLIKES. Artichokes. Soft' roes. Plum Jam. Whiting.
Sweet potatoes, Monkey huts. Venison,
Underdone beef or Garlic.
steak.
Oulous.
Cake,
Pickled cabbage.
Bread and butter, Veal.
-Mint sauce.
Pork.
Tripe.
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Haggis.
I think that tho iwo
naxtiest
to
things to eat-I have ever tried are huggis and garlic. I once ventured in spoonful of haggis, and came
the tinmediate conclusion that, despite my ancestry, there was some- thing lacking in my Scots blood. a fiendish product of Lati
As for garlic, I regard it na being Latin countries and grounds for divorce.
I know ir number of people who say that cels are delicious and do you lots of good, but I have never bad the pluck to eat one, Jellied or aon-follied. But then, I have a wife who steadfastly refuses to taste an escallop which is very foolish and
Helf-downe of her.
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And I know a professional games
player who partakes of the most, odd "Pearson Hondcuffs the Washing- It is said that a lot of gold in Maple diet... two loaves of fresh. ton Senators," says. a baseball produced in the Philippine Islanda of butter. Now and then he takes ly baked bread a day with lashings heading. People at Home only these days. That'a nothing. Wa
a fish wish, some one would gag M.P.'s. known Peak resident who got but two loaves of new bread a day, to vary this doughy monotony, twenty-four carrots out of his I ask you ... garden this year.
It was stated, during the week, that a thief was silenced by being.
O O hit on the head with a brick In A coloured film of Hongkong ie future, he will never believe that being made. It is to be hoped bricks contain straw!
that the blues won't predominate. ᄆ ปี
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Isn't it just too bad that Govern- The Ethiopians are now, trusting ment officials have now to sit in nt, to rain to save them. So's Hong. Legislative Council meetings on kong! Wednesday afternoons, Instead of going off to play golf?
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Forthcoming ray: Should Indy riders jockey shorts?
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grants from the Poor Box for the purpose of providing the wherewithal to secure a licence. figures, we can discover show As is apparent, the problem that in 1934 the police handled bristles with difficulties, but the over sixteen thousand hawkers' situation might be improved if offence cases, convictions being rigorous steps were taken to obtained in respect, of all but root out the bribery system, in
In view this way clearing the streets of Bome four hundred, hordes of unlicensed people and of figures such as these, small possibly making room for more wonder is it that our gaols are legitimate licence-holders, On overcrowded. There is the the question
on of punishment, the further point that all these penalties are without doubt of cases must occupy a tremend ten too severe, bearing in mind ous amount of the time of the Two hundred and forty bowlers the poverty of those affected, police; which might be put to will be seen in action today which in nine cases out of ten better purpose, to say nothing This should loosen up the elbows inevitably means imprisonment of the cost to the public involved for the summer,
0.0 fines, by all the routine work neces- in lieu of payment of
Local yachtsmen assert that sitated and the maintenance in
is still releasing In the
Hongkong course of a year, gaol of those sentenced to im- they recently observed a number of unlicensed
monster. It is somewhat suspi- prisoners before their terms have prisonment. The whole ques-cious that their discovery should expired. Apparently it is difficult hawkers sent to gaol must tion, in its several aspects, calls coincide with the opening of the for the authorities to have the be enormous. The latest for serious, consideration.
bathing season.
courage of their convictions.
the
People who thought Hongkong's new Colonial Secretary would be Wright are wrong!
sea-
hoa Strangely enough, he never Indigestion.
Personally, I don't like eggs for my only the white of eggsit crumpet the thin one--I am never But I do lice a mußin (or a
aure) with my tea..
One of the sure ways of finding
out what you most like to cat is to
where you can't get it.
be
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An actor told me that, when he was on tour in South Africa a long- sports contro ing for a Dover sole sent him almost wear, mad at times. I know a young wo- max who has married and gone to live near Singapore who has the. mont tremendous
for longinga strawberries, and a German woman who for years had to send kippers to her daughter in Berlin to appease
An American paper thinks now would be the ideal time to let the Communista tako control of the country if only to me how they divide up the eleven billion dollar
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deficit.
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a craze for them.
And it is extraordinary how many men, are faithful to the pleasures of bread and cheese and beer for lunch If they get away from the ordinary
try. routing of life for a day in the coun
There is a lasting delight in simplo things perhaps
because
wise stomach knows its own fodder,
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