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Anzac Day

COLOUR was leat to the celebra- tion of the 25th anniversary of Anzac Day in Hongkong this morning by the presence at the Cenotaph of Jarge number of young Australian aaval personnel who, since the out- break of war, have been attached to the China Squadron,

The presence of these Australians in the Far East la secret: they were, indeed, the first Australians to proceed overseas in the war against Nazism and would, no doubt, give as good an account of themselves if the ocepsion arose as did their fathers on, the famous slopes of Gaillpoli quarter of a century ago.

A

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 pur- ticipated-in-or-were spectators of the wreath-laying ceremonies small number who were actual pur- ticipants in the Gallipoli Landing.

were 110

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 Bre in de. fence of the Empire they love.

You saw them, too, in civilian clathes, members of the small family of Hongkong residents who recalled, as the bugles sounded at 11 a.m., the hail of death that greeted them as they plunged ashore on April 25,

1915,

TO-DAY is the 25th ANNIVERSARY of the GALLIPOLI LANDING

The STORY of the

ANZACS

TWENTY-FIVE years ago

2

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 Germon raider Emden indesed the convoy of Anznes which comprised 30 fransports and 30,000 men-by only 52 miles as she and they steamed across the Indian

lights Ocean with

out, Then H.M.A.S. Sydney fought, smashed and beached the Gerinan.

The A.L.F. numbered roughly 20,000 Diggers (slang for

gold- miners who din 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 armies. overseas which totalled 320,883 men.

The Commonwealth lest dend and 108,810 Diggers wounded: The war cost the Do- minion £430,000,000.

59,342 Were

The Arst contingent of Anzacs in the Inst war includert 10,000 New Zealanders. Then their country con- tained only a million

but people, tai 98,950 soldiers were sent to assist Britain. They lost 18.050 killed and at the Atmistice there were 52,000 troops in the field with 10,000 waliing to join them or in training.

Are

barkation, when late leave was granted all troops through the night, and well Into the next day, In- stead, they lasted

the transport

turned north at Bradley's Head, near the Hiller's entrance, for it was there that the

of ransports was oo great for numerous inunches at ferries

the 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 urtillery brigade had been transferred to Sydney. We had a triumphal

and for our street march the tramway service was su pended and all other trafle de- flected from the line. of march. Crowds blocked the streets

barracks sur-

AVIS desérted and the Central Station and all. troops were ranging far and wide rounding along the circuitous route to

Mar-

over Sydney. All had dates to rickville.

we occupied the

keep and places to go. Camous

Addison Road Barracks. We

dered. were the first troops to billet in the new brick buildings.

Nothing could have been finer. For 90 days we lived in Sydney and made many friends. For 10 nights, no, BU nights, we made whoopee, for the 90th night was a Imournful fasco.

our

THE 90th night in Sydney wis last before embarking for antl by any estimation should have been our best,

Egypt,

our

Our last parade took the usual form. We were addressed by the church, medical profession, and high military command. A most earnest person exhorted us not to forget

prayers. A medical man warned us that we were go- ing to a tropical country where

would be

He im customs

strange. to be discreet in nil plored us things, and never fail to boil water before drinking it. The military mah, zealous in honour, did not say man? much. But we understood that we "King's Rules and Regs" until we were to play the game. He quoted

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 When they rushed the Turkish defences at Gallipoll on that blondly dawn of April 25, 1915, they estub fished their prowess as assault troops.

Australians

€5 Victoria Crosses, 1,756 Distinguished Conduct Medals, and 1,032 decorations by 12 foreign countries.

The first V.C. wns Lance-Corporal facka, Defending Courtenay's Post quaked.

Gallipoli, his four

on

won

mates

were

killed and the post was rushed by seven TurksTM Jacka attneked ̈ ̈ ̃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 "Jacka's Mob."

The record of the New Zealanders is as brilliant. Ten per cent. of the

nale population served in khaki.

The qurly history of New Zealand traps is bound up with that of the Australians with whom they were brigaded. The occupation of Samon 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 historie land-

ing on Gallipoli,

They are the men who have "at- tended every Anzac Day observance | N.Z. Division took part in all the As a separate unit in France, the in Hongkong, for they choose this day in which to pay homage, during offensive and earned the highest)

bitter fighting after the 1017 Flanders the two minutes Silence, to those of their comrades who did not participate

In the Evacuation.

the

Wo

Here was where someone blun

A last-minute discovery was that the nth belgade had not had a dental inspection before embarkation. The difculty arose ns to how the scattered troops were to be rounded up and brought back to barracks. It was, Indeed, a problem in pre-wireless days.

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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 conveyances, and wildly protest- ing troops almost dumped them into the barbour. By midnight the painful affair was in full swing, although many troops re- mained to be mustered. Rumour was t

at work and some of the men, playing safe, evaded copture.

Resident dentists we

were called

out, and the pleure houses were scoured

for dentists to make ex

uminations and extractions. With dozens of embarking cobbers I was marshalled into line by ferocious

N.C.O.'s, who spat blood, and

ticked "off our nomnes as we entered A the improvised dental

room. double guard was inounted at the entrance. Later one was posted" at the exit for the troops soon dis- covered, amit such confusion, a means of passing through the room without examination. indiscretions

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

icks for pelly were granted freedom. This last, we understood the high command to say, was something new in the ammals of His Majesty's Forces.

for embarking. Was usual troops to have, a temporary free- dom of the city. On dismissal from our last purnde in Australia we' smartly turned right, saluted, cheered uproarlously and bolted to dress, Within half an hour the

It

Within, several dentists were hard at work. With a curiosity engendered by fear men examined cach other's teeth and inexpertly assessed the pain to be endured by

The extraction of several molars.

"Come on, boy. Sit down Open your mouth. Ah, yes." And far- ceps and the strong wrist of the dentist did their bit.

"Right O, you're next.

What,

cocaine? Why, they're falling out, Ali, man. Hold your head up. there you are. Only three. Good inan. Run along, son."

Each denilst had an enamelled dish tin in which he dropped ex- tracted teeth. They were in 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- ing

Stop biting. you 'Hurry up, get

There was a trail of blood down the exit steps, across 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..

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 were very dejected. We were abroad. When kites were stored we glumly lined the ship's rails. The crowd cheered, threw colour- ed paper streamers to

us, and shouted. "ARE WE HEARTED?" There Was answer. ARROW CL,

DOWN

no

It was pitiable to seb of troops holding the gay,

hunering streamers without en-

thusiasm. Their swoolleni Jawa. prohibited the usual long-drawn answering "Coo-ces" so, charac- teristic of farewells

As if sharing the mood of the troops which Alled 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

servants in time of war, drifters

We

were

lurching. Tiny dritters good targets for their frightfulness. And the Admiralty sees fit to arm them with, the I say,

pom-pom, "washed down" from! a high-angled

ships

sort of

praise from General Birdwood.

Now the new set-up of the Second scrunts are the Navy's generul By CAPTAIN FRANK H. SHAW, much bigger ships; they won't find German War is, curiously, bringing ore the twcenter-the odd-job craft. Hongkong is proud to join with Anzacs to meet the Turk again. Smaller and even handler than the these Anzac and English veterans of

Whether they will be fighting shoulder deep-sea fishing boats, they come in Gallipoli in our midst in welcoming to shoulder is not for me to forecast useful when something new and stem to stern; we cork-screwed, Bed Bisherfolk, who are not in the least.. to this Colony the sturdy young men at the moment, but I can shy on vicious, such as the new enemy knota in our tall, the engines raced afraid of death, will fight their tiny who, in Joining Royal Navy units behalf of every Anzac that they mines, denunds attention.

as if determined to twist off

to the last, on the China Station at the outbreak learnt to respect the Turk as a good,

But we shot the driftnets und!

after You can rely on them, too-they serew.

endless: Indeed,

fighting of war list September, were the hard, clenn fighter.

und thele hardy crews have been made a good haul despite the wea- rounds with the choking death of the vanguard of the expeditionary forces So there will be no embarrassment inured through their Ilves and ther.

peace-time sea, the other which both Australia and New

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 aversens speet having been established 25 fighting lives-to liek spots off the Admiralty orders, and I shall be, seem to hard-bitten men something.. in response to the cull of the Mother-

years ago.

‡sca even when is trying its worst (sorry for the mines, magnetic or not, in the nature of a mercy. land.

to do them down.

that

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, is notoriously the of net, these drifternen are kical breed in the lost war, I asked my show end A.I.F., in Australin, measured

savage stretch of water used for sweeping the menuced seas. It skipper, who had seen by the standard of boisterous fare-y man. It can breed the biggest is nothing to them to shoot a couple through from start to finish, whất hơ- wells, accorded the old A.I.F., was sort of storm; it sounds in reefy of miles of surface net and drift would do in the event of war.

"Spitcher as many of the swine as lee-shores, ugly yandbanku; it n tame affair. Any old Digger specialises in fog and "muck" with slight push of their hoisted mizzen slowly and snugly leeward to the

I can, was his reply, "I've been rending of the troopshipя sneak" twisty tides and unforeseeable cur-throughout a whole night, with white) thinkin' it out for twenty years." ing that the army has gone to the rents; it provides, a harvest of her-water swilling their decks for a pro-

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 ly and everyone seemed to be in despite the weather. them.

Soldiers of Australia, goldiers of New Zealand are alrendy 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

quick decision than tho

of the Dominions to give not merely moral, but practical, help In the prosent mortal struggle.

If the spectacle of mass cruelty and oppression and leg in Nazlßted Europe oppals you, Temember 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 Pat all.

When you remember that-and remember too the herole achievements of the Anzacs twenty-five years ago to-day you will feel no doubt at all about the issue of the present war.

ing away would do so with a feel-

pack,

most

came

its way.

that

Ho elaborated. Ho knew the- underwater geography of the North Sen rather better than that of its surface. He knew the gullies where It is this having to go for the her The wharves at Circular

Hitler's secret weapon? The drit-deep water would permit the travel 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 charted-in his mind. He knew tho time water-that makes the drifter men |sitleld falling

against wanton there was danger of prop spilled the sea-dogs they are capable of s low-drafted as they are explosive tide in a sou-westerly wind.

murder.criss-cross currents, the scour of a into the sea. The crowd over on to roots of wharf sheds, blting to the bone and hanging on pk 4 over most of the the only unoccupied places. Even ilke grim death.

quilo

horrors; but the dipped nets

"They'll try to follow them tracks," Will snare the mines. If the tastened he declared. We have 'em taped. the police stationed there abandon- A Cape Horn Night

duties to join the fun, realising,

nets explode the mines-what of It? all of 'em."

And the up-to-date result of our Just before war was declared I Detter a Incerated net than a sunken that there was properly, nothing else for it. If the police was out in a drifter when herring ship as likely as not holding inno-anti-submarine campaign seems to bear cut his boast. German sub- were running big on the Dogger. cont women and childrent still were in possession of their helmets

Enemy craft are attempting to marines cannot possibly win against:: the after

The night on which the drifter set Jast Digger ash was placid, moonlight, and check the drifters activities, but that traditional deumen and fear- cended the gangway, the civil force was quite satisfied.

serene. "I'd like

to see nome wea- they will fall because there is no leanness, Everyone seemed to know ther!" I told my friendly skipper. power out of Heaven that can deter Like Fish

n North Sen drifterman when he is everyone else and talked and

"If you can find it."

"They bo'aves' much like fish," shouted and mado endearing fare- "Well and RP" he said with grim set on a job.

under A torpedo will pasi

the aald my skipper. "Well, we reckon wells to each other as intimate cheerfulness. And

They are small tar to think like fish ourselves," And. friends do. The whole period of miles out, leaving calm for the rag-drifters keels. tho send-offs lasted from parade ing fury of what might have been gets for gunfire. Enemy aircraft he winked emphatically. dismissal on the day prior to em- Cape Hom night.

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