This act of homage paid in London and the Dominions
to the heroic dead and their gallant survivors will no doubt be repeated as long as the Empire endures. The campaign in Gallipoli, though strategically a failure, furnished the most signal and splendid proof of Imperial solidarity that has yet been seen, and the amazing bravery of the men of the daughter-nations in action has been equalled by their magnanimity and forbearance in the hour of disappoint. meat. The King, rightly interpreting the feelings of his subjects, has addressed the following message to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth and the Governor of New Zealand :—
" Tell my people of Australia and New Zealand that to-day I am joining with them in their solemn tribute to the memory of their heroes who died in Gallipoli. They gave their lives for a supreme cause in gallant comradeship with the rest of my sailors and soldiers who fought and died with them. Their valour and fortitude have shed fresh lustre on the British arms. May those who mourn their loss find comfort in the conviction that they did not die in vain, but that their sacrifice has drawn our peoples more closely together and added strength and glory to the Empire."
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