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Anzac Day
COLOUR was lent to the celebra tion of Bie, 25th anniversary of Auzac 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 Chinu Squadron.
The presence of these Australians in the Far East, is no secret: they were, indeed, the Arst Australians to proceed overseas in the war against Nazlism and would, no doubt, give ns good an account of themselves if the
Occasion arose as did their fathers on the famous slopes of Gallipoli a quarter of a century ago.
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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 par- ticipated in or were spectators of the wrenth-laying ceremonies were small number who were actual par- 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 mmelsirom of fire in de- fence of the Empire they love.
You saw them, too, in elvillan clothes, members of the mall tomily of Hongkong residents who recalled. as the bugles sounded at 11 a.m., the hall of death that greeted them. as they plunged ashore ол April
25. 1015.
They are the men who have ai- tended every Anzac Day observance in Hongkong, for they choose this day in which to pay homage, during the two minutes Silence, to those of their comrades who did not participate in the Evacitation.
ing
Hongkong is proud to join with these Anzac and English veterans of Gallipoli In our midst in welcoming to this Colony the sturdy young men who, in joining the Royal Navy units on the China Station at the outbreak of war last September, were the vanguard of the expeditionary forces which both Australia and New
TO-DAY is the 25th ANNIVERSARY of the GALLIPOLI LANDING
The STORY
of the ANZACS
TWENTY-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 coined 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.
In the last war the German raider Emden missed the convoy of Anzacs --which comprised 30 transports and 30,000 men by only 52 miles as she and they steamed across the Indian Осерп with lights out. Then
smashed
H.M.A.S. Sydney fought, and beached the German.
The A.L.F. numbered roughly Diggers (slang for Kold- 20,000 miners who dig gold from the ground but adopted to describe the Aussie soldier in general) In the first convoy. Then Australia had a population of only 4,750,000, yet by the end of the war she had sent armles overseas which totalled 320,883 men.
The Commonwealth lost 59,342 dead
100,819 Diggers and wounded. The war cost the Do- minion £439,000,000.
were
The first contingent of Anzacs in the last was included 10,000 New Zealanders. Then their country con- tained only a million people,
bol
98,950 soldiers were sent to usslet Britain. They lost 19,950 killed and at the Armistice there were $2,000 troops in the field with 10,000 waiting
juin 40 them
or In training. Anzacs served last time on battle- felds which ranged from the bitter cold of the North Russian coast to the steamy Jungles of the Pacifle Islands.
selves with glory in their baptism of
barkation,
when late leave was granted al1 troops through the night, and
into well
the
in-
next day. stead, they lusted until the transport turned north at Bradley's Head, near the Hitler's enter or for oss there that the
of ransports was oo great 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 Sydney,
had a triumphal entry and for our street march the city's tramway service was sus- nected
the line from
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 Borracks.
dered. were the first troops to billet In the new brick buildings.
pendet and
and all other traffic de-
Nothing could have been finer. For 90 days we lived in Sydney and made many friends. For 90 nights, no. 80 nights, we made whoopee, for the 90th night was a mournful fasco.
our
THE 90th night in Sydney was last before embarking for Egypt, and by any estimation should have been our best.
our
prayers. A
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barracks was deserted and the troops were ranging far and wide over Sydney. All hnd dates to keep, and places to go.
Here was where someone biun- A last-minute discovery that the nth brigade had not had a dental inspection before embarkation. The difficulty nrose as to how the scattered troops were to be rounded up and brought back to barracks. It was, indeed,
was
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 commandeered as Our last parade took the usual
- conveyances, and wildly protest- form. We were addressed by the church, medical profession, and ing troops almost. dumped them high military
By midnight command.
into the harbour.
in full the painful affair was earnest person exhorted us not to But above all they covered them- ( warned us that we were 60%
swing, although many troops re- medico
mained to be mustered. Rumour mun rushed the Turkish
was at work and some of the men, playing safe, evaded capture.
were Resident dentists
called out, and the picture houses were scoured for dentists to make ex- aminations and extractions. With dozens of embarking cobbers 1
was marshalled into line by ferocious N.C.O.'s, who
and spat blood, ticked off our names as we entered the improvised dental room. double guard was mounted at the entrance, Later one was posted
defences at
ces at
ire. When theoli on that blood lng to a tropical country where dawn of April 25, 1015, they estab Ished their prowess na assault troops. Australianis won 05 Victoria Crosses, 1,756. Distinguished Conduct Medals, and 1,032 decorations by 12
foreign countries.
mates
were
The Best V.C. was Lunee-Corporal Jacku, Defending Courtenay's Post un Gallipoli, his four killed and the post was rushed by seven Turks. Jacka utiucked with such vigour that he succeeded in shooting five of them and then he bayoneted the remaining two. Now Diggers are still proud to refer to themselves as "Jackn's Mob."
The record of the New Zealanders Is as brilliant. Ten per cent. of the male population served In khaki.
The early history of New Zealand- troops is bound up with that of the Australians with whom they were brigaded. The occupation of Samoa was, however, an "all-New Zealand show." and the New Zealand division played its full part in the defence of the Suez Canal and the historic land- Ing on Gallipoli.
As a separate unit in France, the N.Z. Division took part in all the bitter fighting after the 1017 Flanders offensive and earned the highest
He im customs would be strange. ntored
be discreet in all. us to and never fail to boll water things, before drinking it. The military. 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 avsked.
were
to
We shook hands with several governors--from prisons as well as States were introduced collective- to our medical offleer and Jy
and all numerous staff Johnnies," members of the unit confined barracks for petty indiscretions granted freedom. This last, we understood the high command to say, was something new in the annals of His Majesty's Forces,
IL
USLINI for embarking troops to have a temporary tree- On dismissal dom of the city. from our last parade in Australia we smartly turned right, saluted, cheered uproariously and bolted to dreas,
Within half an hour the
was
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at the exit for the troops soon dis- covered, amid such confusion,-a means of passing through the room without examination.
Within, several dentists were hard at work. With a curiosity engendered by fear men examined cach other's teeth and inexpertly amessed the pain to be endured by
of several molars, traction
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,
Ah,. man. Hold your head up. there you are. Only three. Good man. Run along, son."
Each dentist had an enamelled dish tin in which he dropped ex- tracted teeth. They were in vary ing stages of fullness and numer- ous, motors and incisors were scat- tered around, Great blobs of blood mixed with them created a crazy floor pattern in the dazzling clecirle light,
"What? No, Just a couple. Soon be over. You don't? But it's cost-
nothing ing you
Stop biting. Hurry up, get
There was a trait of blood down the exit steps, scrom the parade ground, and into the barracks. The gentle growled, the ungentle swore, but all spat blood, swabbed their mouths, and nursed their torn jaws,
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THE march to the troopship' was very quiet and the brigade may have been sneaking up to the line to engage in a night action. All We were were very dejected. abroad. When kites were
ere stored
we glumly lined the ship's rails, The crowd theered, threw colour- ed paper streamers to shouted, "ARE
HEARTED?" There Answer.
Us,
aud
DOWN
Was
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It was pitiable to see hundreds of troops holding the gay, shimmering streamers without en- thusiasm.
Their swoollen jawa prohibited the usual long-drawn answering "Coo-ces" teristic of farewells.
so charac-
As it sharing the mood of the troops which filled her, the trans porl slowly and sullenly drew from the crowded wharf, in what must have been one of the quietest send- otts from Australia.
Ex-Dig
The SHIPS that SWEEP the SEA
rely
lurching, ny dritters good targets for their frightfulness. And if the Admiralty sees it to arm them with,
ofter
the
praise from General Birdwood: TF trawlers are the Navy's general By CAPTAIN FRANK H. SHAW much bigger ships; they won't find
Now the new set-up of the Second servants in time of war, drifters German War is, curiously, bringing are the tweenies the odd-job craft. Anzacs to meet the Turk again: Smuller and even handler than the Whether they will be fighting shoulder deep-sea fishing bonts, they come in We were washed down" from say, a high-angled pom-porn, to shoulder is not for me to forecast useful when something now and stem to stern; we cork-screwed, tied fisherfolk, who are not in the least. at the moment, but I can Bay on vicious, such US the new 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. tearnt to respect the Turk as a good,
You cha
Aghting endless! un 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 So there will be no embarrasiment inured
sort through their lives and ther
peace-time sea, the other when ex-enemies meet, mutual re- through generations of tough, hard- That same drifter is now under finish-swift and unexpected-may Zealand have already sent overseas spect having been established 25 fighting lives to lek spots off the Admiralty orders, and I shall be seem to hard-bitten men something. in response to the call of the Mother-years ago,
sea even when is trying its worst sorry for the minca, magnetic or not, in the nature of a mercy,
During my recent trip, remember... that come its way. The North Sea, their home and Used to handling incredible lengths ing my varied experiences with the are Ideal breed in the last war, I asked my stamping-ground, is notoriously the of net, these driftermen most savage stretch of water used for sweeping the menaced sens. It skipper, who had seen that show by man.
tan. It can breed the biggest is nothing to them to shoot a couple through from start to finish, what he
do in the event of war.
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 become the major battlefield of well the war.
On the safe defence of the Middle and Near East against totalitarlan attack may well depend the survival of the free Dominions, of Colonies such as Hongkong, as well as of the Motherlond,
.
Nothing should make the peoples of this mighty Empire rejoice more than the quick declsion of the Dominions to give not merely moral, but practical, help in the present morial struggle.
If the spectacle of mass cruelty and oppression and Iles in Nazlsled Europe sppnis you, remember the free British nations that stand without. Remem- ber Socialist New Zealand, which has 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.
When you remember that-and remember too the herole achiqvernenta "of the Anzacs twenty-five years ago to-day you will feel no doubt at all About the issue of the present war.
to do them down.
THE recent embarkation of the end. A.I.F., in Australia, measured by the standard of boisterous fare- wells accorded the old ALF, Was
sort of storm; il abounds in reefy of miles of surface net and drift watcher
ng
higy
of
I out for twenty years."
a tame affair. Any old Diggerlee-s
lee-shores, and ugly sandbanks; it slowly and snugly to leeward to the
1 can" was -rending of the troopships sneak-specialises in fug and "muck" with slight push of their holsted mizzen ing away would do so with a feel- twisty tides and unforeseeable cur-roughout a whole night, with white thinkin' ing that the army has gone to the reats; it provides a harvest of her water swilling their decks for a pro- pack.
ring offering a reward so transient per "old Neptune's washdown." "The old send-offs were very live that it must be gleaned quickly Catching the Mines
despite the weather,
Ho
of
the swine ns. reply. "I've been.
elaborated. Ho knew the underwater geography of the North Sea rather better than that of its surface. He knew the gullies where
wanton murder. charted-in his mind. He knew the
ly and everyone seemed to be in
It is this having to go for the her- Hitler's secret weapon? The drik-deep water would permit the travel them. The wharves nt 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 there was danger of people falling water-that makes, the drifter men shield against
of Shallow-drafted as they are they can criss-cross currents, the scour of a the sea-dogs they are capable Into the sea. The crowd spilled over on to roofs of whort sheds, blting to the bone and hanging on pass over the only unoccupied places. Even like grim death.
into
ed
the police stationed there abandon- A Cape Horn Night
duties to join the fun realising. quite properly, that there
WAB
most of the explosive tide in a sou-westerly wind. horrora; but the dipped nets will "They'll try to follow them trucks,""
scenta to.
snare the mines. It tho tautened he declared.. "We have 'em taped---- nels explode the mines-what of 11? all of 'em," Just before war was declared Better a lacerated net than a sunken And the up-to-date result of our nothing else for it. If the police was out in a drifter when herring abipas likely as not holding inno-anti-submarine campaign
the Dogger cent women and childrent,
bear out a boast. German sub- were running big on atill were in possession of their
The night on which the drifter -set Enemy craft are attempting to marines cannot possibly win against. helmets after the lost Digger as-
placid, moonlight, and checke the drifters activities; but that traditional acumen and fear- cended the gangway, the elvil forceforth WES
Jessness. serene. "I'd like to sea some wea-they will fail because there is no was quite satisfied.
Everyone seemed 10
ther know
tok my friendly skipper, power out of Heaven that can deter Like Fish
a North Sea drifterman when he is everyone else, and talked and "If you can find it."
They be'aver much like fish," **We'll find it!" he said with grim set on a job, shouted and made endearing fore
the sald my skipper. "Well, we reckon did, sixty
under A torpedo will pass wells to each other as intimate cheerfulness. And we friends do. The whole period of miles out, leaving calm for the rag-drifters keels. They are small tor to think like. Ash ourselves," And the send-offs Insted from parade ing fury of what might have been agels for gunfire. Enemy aircraft he winked emphatically.
PLEASE Turn To Pago 5. dismissal on the day prior to em- Cape Horn night.
have made poor bombing practice ati
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