Though the country generally has been relieved by the retirement
of the bulk of our forces at the Dardanelles, there has been mixed with our satisfaction a very deep regret that the magnificent gallantry displayed by the Australians and New Zealanders (gallantry than which history affords no nobler example) should appear to have been thrown away. But it has not been thrown away. The Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli stand the wonder of the • world. Unprofessional, almost untrained, soldiers as many of them were, they were asked to undertake a task such as might have seemed impossible to the best troops in the world. Yet they accomplished it, and not in a sudden fury of fight but in a death struggle the agony of which lasted for months. To set such an example, and to give to the young nations of the Southern Seas so glorious a foundation for their soldiers' honour, can never be regarded as loss. Rather it was glorious gain. Every inhabitant of Australia and New Zealand has been established in his love and devotion to his native land and to the Empire by what his follow-citizens have done at Anzac.
