Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-12
Soldier Writes Interesting Let
ter to HiIo Relative Telling
of His Observation
lspecI,I star. buIletin corr.spond.neel


HIIIO, Sept ll.-From q near rela
tive OF a we'll known Hilo man come:
a letter from the front in Eu
rope that can De read with the deep
est interest and with a keen percep
ttCn of what is the thought by anC
the determination OF every Britishel
row engaged in fighting for the EN-
pre- On many front.
Now that | have been here fol
some eighteen months or So" says
The correspondent. u have every op
portunity and every right in the world
10 say what | think of the war, It's
probable end and the conduct of the
warning and neutral nations. Don't
think me q 'hot-air artist, as ! know
you Americans call q man who talks
too much. may, possibly, talk toe
much, but whatever | say in this let
ter is gospel truth, or at least SC
close TO it that there can be no doubt
ing II.
Joined Australians.
when | joined the first Australian
force to be sent to the front you
well know that | had had special
training as a newspaperman. | al
ways felt that if | could get out into
the real. broad highways and could
get in touch with the outer world,
would be able to record my impress
sions fairly wildly.
We'll, when the war broke out, l.
IS you know, volunteered for active
service, and as l had had a little eX.
perience during the Boer war in
South Africa, ! soon was given a com
mission as an officer That cuts no
Ice to quote your expressive. Ameri-
can way Of talking but is still part
OF the story.
How Greece Upset Pians.
THE regiment was a member of
was sent TO Egypt in order to not
only take hand in guarding the Suez
Canal, but to also give us a chance
to drill the men, all Of whom were
raw recruits, but all the same, the salt
of the earth and every man a " G.
wearer in embryo
well, We spent some time in Egypt
and then we were sent to the Darda-
RELIES. That story does not need tell
will always remain as a bright, par
ticular episode of the whole war. If
Greece had kept the word pledged by
her premier, Venizelos, to join the
Allies, the Gallipoli affair would have
turned out very differently. The fact
OF the matter is that our transports
which were carrying enormous
amounts of supplies were intended to
first discharge their cargo at a Greek
port From that place the transports
were to have returned to Egypt and
other places. The supplies that the
transports were meant to take to the
Greek base were intended to be
transhipped on other smaller vessels
to Gallipoli. When the Greeks threw
US all down-you see / am strong on
the American dope-we had to simply
take these transports direct to An
FAC Bay and other places and there
discharge the cargoes. The worst part
of the affair was that in the trans
ports the most needed supplies were
at the absolute bottom of the ship.
This is accounted for by the fact that
it was originally intended to have
the transports discharge their cargoes
at Greek port. If that program had
gone through all right, the first things
cut of the ships would have been the
bottom ones in the new shore piles
of supplies, and the last things out of
the holds would have been what was
first of all needed for the Gallipoli
peninsula operations. Do you get me?
Am | American enough?
We'll, don't want to linger over
the Gallipoli affair We had nearly
one hundred thousand casualties there,