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Anzac Day
COLOUR was lent to the celebra- tion of the 25th anniversary of Anzac Day in Hongkong this morning by the presence at the Cenotaph of a large number of young Australian naval personnel who, since the out- break of war, have been attached to the China Squadron.
The presence of these Australlons In the Far East is no secret: they were, indeed, the first Australlans to proceed overseas in the war against Nazism and would, no doubt, give as good an account of themselves if the
TO-DAY is the 25th ANNIVERSARY of the GALLIPOLI LANDING
The STORY
of the
ANZACS
i
#PWENTY-FIVE years ago a
Tommy was sitting beside the Suez Canal, watching one great transport after another steam slowly by. Puzzled by the unusual uniforms of the. troops, he sang out: "What are you?"
Across the water there rolled out the chorus ANZACS. The word had just been doined from the letters of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, for the first mixed Corps from the Antipodes to enter a theatre of war this side of the globe.
smashed
barkation,
when late leave was
granted all troops through
night, and
the
well well
next
the
day. In-
stead, they lasted until the transport turned n orth at
Bradley's Head, near the Hitler's entrance, for it was there that the speed of ransports was oo great for the numerous launches and ferries to keep abreast. So, in a sense we Just left them, and the send-offs
petered out.
. But not all send-offs were quite so gay and Joyous. The old nth's was not. It was a mistake, of course, for someone had blundered. Queensland's crack artillery brigade Had been transferred to We had a triumphal Sydney, Then
entry and for our street march the city's tramway service was sus- pended and all other trafe de- flected from the line of march. Crowds blocked the streets sur- rounding Central Station, and all along the circuitous route to Mar- rickville. Here we occupied the famous Addison Road Earracks. We were the first troops to billet in the new brick buildings.
In the last war the German raider Emden missed the convoy of Anzacs which comprised 38 transports and 30,000 men-by only 32 miles as she and they steamed across the Indian Ocean with
lights out. H.M.A.S. Sydney fought, and beached the German.
The
A.I.F. numbered roughly 20,000 Diggers (slang for
gold- miners who dig gold from the ground but adopted to describe the Aussie soldier In general) in the first convoy, Then Australla had population of only 4,750,000, yet by the end of the war she had sent armies overseas which totalled 328,883 men.
The Commonwealth lost 50,342 dead
and
Diggers 106,419
were wounded. The war cost the Do- minion £439,000,000.
The first contingent of Anzacs in the last war included 10,000 New Zealanders. Then their country con- but people. tained only a million 08,950 soldiers were sent to assist
ขอบ Britain. They lost 16,050 killed and at the Armistice there were 52,000 troops in the field with 10,000 waiting to join them or in training.
Anzacs served last time on battle- fields
which
ranged from the bitter cold of the North Russian coast to the steamy jungles of the Pacific Islands.
But above all they covered them- selves with glory in their baptism of fre. When they rushed the Turkish defences at Gallipoll on that bloody dawn of April 25, 1915, they estab
Nothing could have been finer. For 90 days we lived in Sydney and made many friends, For 99 nights, no, 89 nights, we made whoopee, for the 90th night was a mournful Ansco,
THE 00th night in Sydney was our last before embarking for Egypt, and by uny
estimation should have been our best.
Our last parade took the usual form. We were addressed by the church, medical profession, and high military command. A most carnest person exhorted us not forget our prayera. A medical man warned us that we were
CTC EO- ing to a tropical country where customs would be strange. He im- plored us to be discreet in all
CUST
and never fail to boil water
ocension arose as did their fathers lished their prowess as assault troops, the drinking it. The military
on the famous slopes of Gallipoli a quarter of a century ago,
Australians won 05 Victoria Crosses, 1,756 Distinguished Conduct Medals, and 1,032 decorations by 12 foreign countries.
It was not only the sons of the Anzacs who attended the simple cere- mony at the Cenotaph this morning. Among the many people who por- ticipated in or were spectators of the wreath-Inying ceremonies were no amali-number-who-were-actual-par--f-shooting-five-of-them-and-then-he
ticipants in the Gallipoli Landing.
You saw them in the uniforms of the British Army and the British Navy; a trifle grey, now, around the temples, but still, ready to jump Into the same maelstrom of fire in de- fence of the Empire they love.
civilian You saw them, too, In clothes, members of the small famliy of Hongkong residents who recalled, as the bugles sounded at 11 am., the hull of denth that greeted them they plunged ashore on April 25,
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They are the men who have at- tended every Anzac Day observance In Hongkong, for they choose this the two minutes Silence, to those of their comrades who did not participate in the Evacuation.
The first V.C. was Lance-Corporal Jucke. Defending Courtenay's Post on Gallipoli, his four mates were killed and the post was rushed by seven Turks. Jacku attacked with such vigour that he succeeded in
bayoneted the remaining two. Now Diggers are still proud to refer themselves as "Jacka's Mob."
to
The record of the New Zealanders is as brilliant. Ten per cent, of the mule population served in khaki.
The early history of New Zealand troops is bound up with that of the Austrailons with whom they were brigaded. The occupation of Samon was, however, an "all-New Zealand played and the New Zealand division
its full part in the defence of Suez Canal and the historie land- Ing on Gallipoli.
the
As a separate unit in France, the N.Z. Division took part in all the bitter Bghting after the 1917 Flanders
man, zealous in honour, did not say much. But we understood that we were to play the game. He quoted "King's Rules and Regs" until we quaked.
Wes shook hands with several governors from prisons as well as States were introduced collective- ly to our medical officer
and numerous staff johnnies, and all members of the unit confined to
barracks for petty indiscretions were granted freedom. This last, we understood the high command to say, was something new in the annals of His Majesty's Forces.
It was
usual for
embarking
troops to have a temporary free dom of the city. On dismissal from our last parade in Australia we smartly turned right, saluted, cheered uproariously and bolted to dress.
Within half an hour the
barracks was deserted and the troops were ranging far and wide over Sydney. All had dates to keep and places to go.
Here was where someone blun dered. A last-minute discovery was that the nth brigade hnd not had a dental inspection before embarkation. The difficulty arose us to how the scattered troops were to be rounded up and brought back to barracks. It was, indeed, a problem in pre-wireless days.
THE police-military and civil- were enlisted to round up N.C.O.'s, gunners, drivers, and signallers, and escort them to barracks. Tramcars were commandecred as. Conveyances, and wildly prolest- ing troops almost dumped them into the harbour. By midnight the
painful affair was in full- swing, although many troops re mained to be mustered. Rumour was at work and some of the
men, playing safe, evaded capture, Resident dentists were
called but, and the picture houses were scoured for dentists to make ex- aminations and extractions. With dozens of embarising cobbers I was marshalled into line by ferocious N.C.O.%, who spat blood, and ticked off our names as we entered the improvised dental room. double guard was mounted at the entrance. Later one was posted
A
at the exit for the troops soon dis- covered, amid such confusion, -a means of passing through the room without examination.
wero
Within, several dentists hard at work. With a curiosity engendered by fear men examined each other's teeth and inexpertly assessed the pain to be endured by the extraction of several molara.
"Come on, boy. Sit down Open your mouth. Ah, yes." And for- ceps and the strong wrist of the dentist did their bit.
"Right O, you're next. What,
cocaine? Why, they're falling out, man. Hold your head up. Ah,. there you arc. Only three, Good man. Run along, son"
Each dentist had an enamelled dish fin in which he dropped ex- tracted teeth. They were În vary- ing stages of fullness and numer- ous, molars and incisors were scat- tered around. Great blobs of blood mixed with them created a
crazy floor pattern in the dazzling electric light.
"What? No, Just a couple. Soon be over. You don't? But it's cost- Stop biting.. ing you nothing. Hurry up, get out."
There was a trait of blood down the exit steps, across the parade- ground, and into the barracks. The gentle growled, the ungentie- swore, but all spat blood, swabbed their mouths, and nursed their tom jaws.
THE march to the troopship was very quiet and the belgade inay have been sneaking up to the line to engage in night action. All We were were very dejected. abroad. When kites were stored we glumly lined the ship's rails. The crowd cheered, threw colour- and ed paper streamers to us, shouted,
"ARE WE DOWN- HEARTED?" There Wor no answer. It was pitiable to seo- hundreds of troops holding the gay, shimmering streamers without en- husiasm," Their swoollen Jaws prohibited the usual long-drawn answering "Coo-tes" $0 charac- teristic of farewells,
As if sharing the mood of the troops which filled her, the trans- port slowly and sullenly drew from the crowded wharf, in what must have been one of the quietest send-. offs from Australia.
Ex-Dig
The SHIPS that SWEEP the SEA
day in which to pay homage, during offensive and earned the highest trawlers are the Navy's general) By CAPTAIN FRANK H. SHAW; much bigger ships; they won't find
Hongkong is proud to join with these Anzie and English veterans of Gallipoll in our midst in welcoming to this Colony the sturdy young men who, in joining the Royal Navy units no the China Station at the outbreak of war last September, were the vanguard of the expeditionary forces which both Australia and New Zealand have already sent overscon in response to the call of the Mother- land.
Soldiers of Australia, soldiers of New Zealand are already in the Near East, ready to guard the vital lands and communications in what may yet well become the major battlefield of the war.
On the safe defence of the Middle and Near East against totalitarian attack may well depend the survival of the free Dominions, of Colonies such as Hongkong, as well as of the Motherland.
Nothing should make the peoples. of this mighty Empire rejoice more than the quick decision of the Dominions to but practlen, not merely moral,
help mortal struggle.
in the present
praise from General Birdwood.
So there will be no embarrassment mured when ex-enemies meet; mutual re-tro
years ago.
We were
lurching, tiny drifters good targets for their frightfulness. "And if the Admiralty sees it to arm them with, the pom-pom, "washed down" from; say, a high-angled
of
Now the new set-up of the Second servants in time of war, drifters German Waz is, curiously, bringing are the tweentes-the odd-job craft. Anzacs to meet the Turk again. Smaller and even handler than the Whether they will be fighting shoulder deep-sea fishing boats, they come in: to shoulder is not for me to forecast useful when something new and stem to stern; we cork-screwed, tled fisherfolk, who are not in the least. at the moment, but I can ROY on vicious, such
a the now enemy knots in our tail; the engines raced afraid of death, will fight their tiny behalf of, every Anzac that they mines, demands attention.
as if determined to twist off the ships to the last. learnt to respect the Turk as a good,
after
fighting endless You can rely on them, too-they screw. But we shot the driftnets and Indeed, hard, clean fighter,
and their hardy crews have been made a good haul despite the wea- rounds with the choking death of the
Through their lives and ther.
peace-tline sea, the ather
sort That same drifter is now under'finish-swift and unexpected-may spect having been established 25 rough generations of tough, hard-
fighting fives-to lick spots off the Admiralty orders, and I shall be seem to hard-bitten men something. sea even when it is trying its worst sorry for the mines, magnetic or not, in the nature of a mercy, to do them down.
that come its way.
During my recent trip, remember- The North Sea, their home and Used to handling Incredible lengths ing my varied experiences with the THE recent embarkation of the stamping-ground, ts notoriously the of net, these driftermen are Ideal breed in the last war, I asked my that show It skipper, who had seen most savage stretch of water used for sweeping the menaced seas. end A.I.F., in Australia, measured
by man. It can breed the biggest is nothing to them to shaet a couple through from start to finish, what he by the standard of boisterous fare- wells accorded the old A.L.F., Was
sort of storm; it abounds in reefy of miles of surface net and drift would do in the event of war.
"Spitcher a tome affair. Any old Digger lec-shores, and ugly sandbanks; it slowly and snugly to leeward to the reading of the troopships sneak-
specialises in for and "muck" with slight push of their hoisted mizzen I can," was his reply, "I've been ing away would do so with a feel-twisty tides and unforeseeable cur- throughout a whole night, with white thinkin' it out for twenty years."
elaborated. . Hà know the- ing that the army has gone to the
rents; it provides a harvest of her- water swilling their decks for a pro-
underwater geography
of the North pack.
ring offering a reward so transient per "old Neptune's washdown."
Sea rather better than that of its it must be gleaned quickly Catching the Mines that
surface. He knew the gullies where despite the weather,
into the
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It is this having to go for the her-
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many
of the swine as.
The old send-offs were very live- ly and everyone seemed to be in
Hitler's secret weapon? The dril-deep water would permit the trave! them. The wharves at Circular Quay were always so crowded that ring, come what may-hell or high ters are its counter a pretty safe of submarines, and, he had them all *wanton murder charted-in his mind. He knew the there was danger of people falling water-that makes the drifter men shield against
sea. The crowd spilled the sea-dogs they are capable of Shallow-drafted as they are they can criss-cross currents, the scour of a over on to roofs of wharf sheds, biting to the bone and hanging on pass over most of the explosive tide in a sou-westerly wind.
They'll try to follow them tracks," horrors; but the dipped nols will the only unoccupied places. Even ilke grim death,
We have 'em taped- declared. snare the mines. If the tautoned he the police stationed thero abandon A Cape Horn Night
nels explodo the mines-what of it? all of 'em éd duties to join the fun, realising,
sunken Just before war was declared 1 Better n lacerated not than
And the up-to-date result of our quite properly, that there was nothing else for it. If the polico was out in a dritter when herring ship as likely as not holding inno-anti-submarine campaign seems to
the Dogger cent women and children!
bear out his boast, German sub- - were running big on all were in posesion of their helmets after the last Digger as- The night on which the drifter set Enemy craft are attempting to marines cannot possibly win against: cended the gangway, the civil force forth was placid, moonlight, and check the drifters activities; but that traditional acumen, and fear- was quite sąlisted.
serene. "I'd ho to see some wen- they will fall because there is no lessness. Everyone remed to know ther" I told my friendly skipper, power out of Heaven that can deter Like Fish
"It wo
you can find it." everyone ciso and talked and
North Sea drifterman when he li When you remember that-and shouted and made endearing fare cheerfulness. And we did, Aixty
"We'll find it!" he said with grim set on a job. remember too the herole'achievements
under A torpedo will pass wells to each other as intimate of the Anzacs twenty-five years ago)
friends do. The whole period of miles out, leaving calm for the rng-drifters keels. They are small tar-to think like fish ourselves." And. to-day you will feel no doubt at all the pend-offs lasted from parade ing fury of what might have been a gels for gunfire. Enemy aircraft he winked emphatically
dismissal on the day prior to em- Cope Hom night.
have made poor bombing practice at PLEASE Turn To Page 5.
If the spectacle of mass cruelty and oppression and lies in Nazified Europe appals you, remember the tree British nations that stand without. Remem- ber Socialist New Zealand, which hat turned unanimously from the building up of a great social experiment to the grimmer job of defending the hard- won right of free-nations to exist 'at all.
about the Issue of the present war.
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"They bo'aves much like fish," the sald my skipper, "Well, we reckon