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AND THE WAR.
EPIC OF THE "DIGGER."
4 CLASSIC WORK.
[By H. J. T.]
THE AUSTRALIAN CHARACTER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
YESTERDAY EVENING'S FINE PERFORMANCE,
F
ABOUT THE "AMJON
fine spirit which sent them both to CITY HALL CONCERT, In outlining the chain of events by the war, but their mentality was which the Australian Imperial Force different. The British private stood was shaped, Mr. Bean makes it clear in somewhat distant awe of his that it was due to the foresight of officers as beings on a different plane. Major General Bridges, then Inspec. He was most conscientiously correct tor General of the Australian Military in his painstaking observades of all Forces, that the Australians want orders. He could not lay down the Lady Stubbs, Mr. Harry Ors, the wall- Before a large audience Including to the war as national unit instead of law (with impartial downrightness being merged into the other forces and considerable insight) upon known pianist composer, gave bie of the Empire. Of General Bridges politics, the news of the world, Ger- third piano recital in the City Hall Mr. Bean says that he was a long man strategy, British, leaders, the yesterday evening, assisted by Dr. headed man pho saw, though dimly, strange things of Egypt, Australian Daniel Onderwijzer, baritone of the even at this early stage the national horseracing or international boxing Amsterdam Royal Oper. Mr. Öre interest in keeping Australia's force He took most of the Australians' together." "Had it gone. to dry jokes in earnest. The oversea has long since proved his worth a the war in the form which the Army soldier was a man of the world and the pianist and Dr. Onderwijzer 'has a Council advised," he points out, two had little foundation for
there would have been no Anzac real intimacy. Yet both loved distinguished record in the Dutch Corps. Australia would have had to its sport. and admired
Indies. With the two working in courage. The eredit no "Landing", no Lone Pine; Trritorial possessed a fine grit; he performance was unusually fine. Rapt sympathetic combination yesterday's neither Pozieres nor-Broodssinde was pathetically modest and unpre-attention followed by enthusiastic no Villers Bretonneux, no Mont St. tonding; he had no money, but he Quentin, neither Romani
nor Damascus, no battle of the Hinden burg Line. The allies would have lacked an element whose enthusiasm was not without its influence upon the war. The Australian nation would not have existed in the same
nee as to-day."
of a
THE GALLIFOLI ADVENTURE.
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position at the outbreak" which, from the point of view of the student of
would share what he had. The well applause was the reward. Empire affairs, is highly instructive.
gropraed British Yeomanry in Egypt Schubert's works claimed the whole He points out that it depended on
have troops who showed their of the first portion of the programme, the will of cach of the dominions
spirit at Scimitar Hill on Gallipoli Mr. Ore's share comprising the within the Empire how far it should
and in several fine charges later in contrasted Third Sonata, A-major, op, actively support the mother country
the war, but with standards and pre- 120, and the Military March, in the event of war and discusses the
judices quite different from those of arranged by Tausig. On the manner in which the strong national
the Australians-mixed little with the vocal side the programme was spirit developed under the free, No fond mother with her only son principles of Britain prompted
PSYCHOLOGY OF THE "DIGGER." troops fromoversea; but asympathetic altered to substitute "Die Nacht and off abroad to school ever thought of Australia to be ready with an offer of about the paychology of the Australian out the war, sprang up between the Onderwijzer also submitted "Der Mr. Bean has a good deal to say understanding, which lasted through- Treuben" for Dur Bist die Rub. Dr. her offspring with more tender unreserved belp as soon as war was soldier. He helps to explain some of Australians and the "chooms."
Neugierige " and "Anfenthalt:" solicitude, watched his progress more declared. There was no doubt" the characteristics about the "digger"
Mr. Ore opened the second half of So it is that these first few chapters anxiously or awaited his return more Mr. Bean says, that the motive which the soldiers of other British of the book seem to me to be the programme with Mendelssoha's eagerly than Australia did in regard to which stirred Australia powerfully in units could never quite understand. full of interest for the general impressive Prelude, Fugue, and the men she sent away across the seas the first place was the realisation that The Australian boy, he points reader. They tell how the bond Choral. From Schumann's works he to the war. Nothing was too good. the Old Country "was, for the rst out, "leares something of half, of affection between Australia and which he played with the same fine ex- chose Etudes Symphoniques, Op., 13, nothing good enough, for "the boys." time in memory, confronted with a the arts -Men, women and, not least, the struggle in which she might actually time he is ten years old" and so when the testing time came; they tions took the form of three songs from
soldier by the the motherland met and stood the test
pression. Dr. Onderwijzer's contribu- children worked for the soldiers with cease to be a great nation." Again it was that in practice it was soon show how the great young Common- all the strength that was in them. he says, "Long before the end of found that the rank and file of the wealth awoke to a sense of its national Schumann-Widmung," Du bist And, so that they might have news of the war the Australian motive had A.S.P. could be trained in a few individuality; they pourtray clearly Grenadiere." The final item submitt wie eine Blume," and "Die Zwei how it fared with their lads, they sent come to this-Australians were fight-months, provided that the officers and faithfully the true character of with the Australian Imperial Force ing because they hated German knew their work and were an Official War Correspondent who principles, to which they were
men one of the most picturesque figures ed by special request was Leonce- as capable of handling men, wont wherever they went and wrote completely opposed as white is to man who commanded them must Australian "digger."
"But the among the Empire's fighters--the vallo's Prologue to "I Pagliacci." home about their doings. The man black, and because, if the allies lost, needs be a man in every sense of the chosen for the post was Mr. C. E. W. Australia would be a spoil to the word. Most Australians had never Bean and though he quite naturally conqueror.
The rest of the book is devoted The free decision of in their lives -known what it was to to an account of the embarkation of had his critics, he is generally Australians was never in doubt. They be given a direct order undisguised by the first Australian contingent, the reckoned to have done his job f poured out their ships, their men, and "you mighs" or would you mind?" training in the Egyptian desert and every number revealing the same reasonably well.
the money for their maintenance. To Since the discipline of the much- the earlier phase of the Gallipoli
admirable discrimination and bel Soon after the war was over Mr. every Cause which would benefit harassed bush school-teacher they campaign. Mr. Bean should know, if Bean was set a much more difficult their allies they gave unstintingly. had never known any restraint that anyone does, the truth about the self a finished singer. His pleasing Dr. Onderwijzer soon showed him- task. The Commonwealth Govern- Appeals for France, Belgium, was not selt imposed." ment set him down on a homestead Serbia, Russia, Italy, Armenia, Australian wanted to do a thing he own personal experiences and the ac-
"If an Dardanelles for, in addition to his baritone voice has both quality and in the territory which is to be occupied never reached the Australian in vain. possessed the capacity for acting counts obtained by him from men who range, while his notes are clear and by the new federal capital, guve hira When itcame to the support of his own on his own initiative."
sustained. a staff of assistants, and told him to and the British soldiers the stream of
Especially fine was his were actually in the "Such men could not easily be he was, after the war, allowed to fitting culmination to a fine per
fighting rendition of the operatic number, a go ahead and produce an "Official misgiving was never checked,” controlled by the traditional methods question the Turkish staff very fully formance. History of Australia in the war." Mr. Bean had many cartloads of When Mr. Bean goes on to speak of man had received a good education, Office also sent a senior officer with of the British Army. The fact that a in Constantinople. The Turkish war official and unofficial records to sift of the Australian Imp rial Force he dressed well, spoke English faultlessly him to Anzac where for a week they through bofore he could even begin does so with the sympathy and under and belonged to the officer" class went carefully over the whole position; on his huge undertaking but now the standing of a man who saw the would merely incline them, at first lacussing the fighting at each point first friuts of his labour have appeared "digger" in the line and out of the sight, to laugh at him, or at least to and comparing notes. in the shape of a volume, running to line and knew him for the man he suspect that he was guilty of affecta- 660 pages, which tells the story of was. "So far" he says, as “the tion-i their own language, "putting clusions Anzac, from the outbreak of war to Australian held a prevailing creed, it on dog." But they were seriously failure the end of the first phase in May 1915. was a romantic creed inherited from intent upon learning, and were readily very clearly but there is not space.
This is only the first of several the gold-miner and the bushman of controlled by anyone really com- enough to go into them here. The suits lodged against the Banque In consequence of the numerous. volumes but posterity is likely to set which the chief article was that a man petent to
They it down as one of the most inter- must at all costs stand by his mate. were kero-worshippers to the back pause of the failure, be indicates, Industrielle de Chine, the Parquet. of esting and illuminating ofte He was and is the one law which the bone. There was a difficulty in, re-effect at that time what Sir Ian proceedings against
was that it needed 150,000 men to the Seine has decided to institute, series. For, in addition to good Australian must never brak." conciling them to any sort of irksome Hamilton sought to do with 70,000.
M. Andre containing an account of the earlier He goes on to show how this spirit of rule; the putting of any previret
Berthelot, president of the Council of developments of the Gallipoli adven-"mateship," which was embedded "out of bounda" they regarded as
Administration of the Banque ture, it deals with Australia's attitude deep in the
In passing Mr. Bean pays more than Industrielle de Chine, and M. Pernotte, soul of every towards the "old country" and the man of
an attempt to treat them as children. one tribute to the heroism of the director and former administrator of the A.I.F., has, with At first there undoubtedly existed British troops with whom the Anzaca the bank, for infringement of the war, her first preparations after she other qualities had decided to throw her slouch hat originality and the faculty of rising resentfulness, never very serious, but remarks: "A brilliant dispatch from that, in spite of their knowledge of independence, among them a sort of suppressed were associated. In one place he company law. Allegations are made into the ring and the history of how to an occasion, become recognizable yet noticeable, of the whole system of Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, published a that the concern the force which was later to win fame as parts of the Australian character." officers". as the "A. I. F." came to be formed. Before the war no one fully realised
few days after the landing, brought state of insolvency, the directors In-recording the part played by a that an Australian national character war was never at heart a regular fore the world in such a manner that capital, and by misrepresenting the The Australian, to the end of the the efforts of these young nations be issued a large amount of fresh particular section of the Allied forces or even a nation existed. Only in soldier. Off parade he was a civilian some speak to this day as if the land- actual situation of the bank induced there were naturally many tendencies one point," notes the historian was bent upon drawing from it whatever ing were an affair of Australasian larger numbers of persons to subscribe that the Australian historian bad the Australian people palpably united experience he could, useful or other troops alone, and the unsurpass for shares, which were issued at a paid to their owners, in consequence tions are now hanging fire. very carefully to avoid. Mr. Bean in a determination to keep its oon-wise, while the opportunity lasted."able heroism of the 29th Division, heavy premium. The inquiry has of the suspension of payments. spenis to have surmounted the tinent for a white man's land..
confidently anticipated, nevertheless, difliculties confronting him with Nationalism
RELATIONS WITH THE "TOMMY." and patriotism are
amid even heavier difficulties, has been placed in the hands of M. The Chinese authorities are said to that the mail be definitely conspicuou success. He shows at cherished ideals, and the genuine Australian soldier with his comrade comrades-been forgotten."
Respecting the relations of the sometimes not by the will of their Richaud, one of the Paris investigat ba ahowing reluctance, owing to westled within the next few weeks,, the beginning of his introduction that Australian, with an almost feminine the British Territorial "Tommy"
ing magistrates.
expert advice, to proceed with the Mr. Alfred Onlman) editor of Petit An Australian review of this first he is perfectly aware of the danger of sensitiveness about laying open his Mr. Bean has this to say: "The British instalment of the epic of the "digger" on the basis of which the inquiry Industrial Loan of Frs. 500,000,000, stipulate that the proceeds of the The accountancy expert's report mising in France of the Chinese Bleu says the French authorities. obscuring the true perspective by so feelings to another's gaze, disguised Tummies amongst whom he afterwards says that. it will be a classic. It was ordered, states that there were or thereabouts for the reconstruction loan shall be employed in France for constructing the antiro conflict that it all such sentiments under a mask of mixed, best-natured of men, extraord- certainly should be. It is a handsome no fictitious dividends distributed, of the Industrial Bank of China. It the purchase of war material, where may seem to centre upon that part of cynicism." Mr. Bean shows that inarily guileless, it with which he deals and, so far us ke he knows his countrymen when he to a degreee, never boastful, and titbits which one imagines that most legal to distribute a
bumble-minded volume withal and it contains many The profits earned in 1919 made it is understood that M. de Fleurieu, as the Chinese Government does not has taken a story at present, seems says of the Australian that "if he seldom the
dividend. French Minister to China, has received want war material, but locomotives to have succeeded in his endeavour respected a person or an ideal he trouble, instinctively looked up to It has 111 maps and 66 illustrations place as far as the increase of capital give strong diplomatic support to the
cause of any serious diggers" will find piquant reading. Some irregularities have taken instructions from his Government to and rolling stock. to observe a due proportion and to screened bis feeling with a dry jest the Australian private as a leader. and is the first of a series of twelve, is concerned. Several customers, of Banque de Paris et des Pays Basin que et Financiere, M. Finaly, the According to the Agence Economi present the part played by Australia which deceived others and perhaps If he was a good Australian he led Nine of the books are to deal with the bank have subscribed new shares its negotiations with the Peking general manager of the Bangne de in its true relation to the vast events himself. Only those who knew him them into good things, and if he was military matters, one with the navy, against advances made by the bank on anthorities for the refloating of the Paris et des Pays Bas, has written to and mighty issues which were its wall suspected the intense nationalism a bad Australian ha fed them into evil, one with affairs in Australia during their current account. The FrenchCom bank. The French negotiators are the Finance Minister to infhris aim settings aim, he says in a short which the war revealed." "It was his but he always led. He was more of the war and one will contain re-pany Act designates this "a fictitious asking the Chinese Government that he finds himself bound to give prefaen, is to present a bare and quality," Mr. Bean says in another a child of nature oven than the New productions of official photographs increase of capital. These irregular to give certain definite guaran up the attempt to float the Banque uncoloursi story" of the part played place, to place his own estimate on Zealanders. When the Americans taken in various theatres of war. by the odisers sad men of the men and events,
subscriptions amount of Frs. 500,000 tees for the payment of prin- Industrielle de Chine. The journal A F. in the war. i
If he saw no foregathered with him at the end of special reason for applauding them the war he led them also.”****
The publishere are Messrs. Augus The late managers, however, replaced cipal and interest of the proposed thinks it is in a position to state this thes and there, it was unclesa to
and Robertson, of 89 Castleraph this sum on October 12. The allega loan, but according to the reports decision is caused by the fack that attempt to furco his applauso, oven had fine qualities they did not really or any of the twelve volumes may be been brought about by the fact that in Paris on Chinese matters-it is will not now contribute to the Bota Later on he adds; "Though both Street, Sydney, from whom the whole tion of abuse of confidence" has prevalent in well-informed quarters China, contrary to her first farvandens, for the King himself."
blend." They had in common the ordered.
several sight deposits have not been upon this very point that the negotia- | tion.
AİLEMA THE "OLD COUNTRY.”
Mr. Bean devotes an interesting fires chapter to a view of "Australia's
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