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Show AUSTRALIAN JEW IS GREAT FIGHTING MAN Lieutenant General Sir John Monash j Considered One of Army's Best Commanders. I MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug. 10. Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, who now commands the Australian army corps the Anzacs fighting in France is a Jew. He is the most representative of a number of Australian Jews who have enlisted. In him, too, the Australian army corps has an Australian commander. comman-der. He recently succeeded Lieutenant General Sir William R. Birdwood, who is an English officer and a professional soldier. sol-dier. Sir John Monash is a citizen soldier. sol-dier. Fifty-three years of age, and a resident of Melbourne, General Monash is a graduate grad-uate in law and in civil engineering of the University of Melbourne, and is a member of the university council. He entered Melbourne university from the Scotch college here. He was a brilliant student. "When he had left the insti- , tution he took up civil engineering. He was always actively interested in things military, but it is on record that not long before the war, when he was consulted about a boy who longed for a cadetship at Uuntroon (the Australian West Point), i he said: 1 "If the boy has any aptitudes with which he can enrich and widen his mind, don't let him live his life as a profes- ; sional soldier through times of peace. ; There Is nothing so narrow, nothing more deadening than the walls of ndministra-tive ndministra-tive routine, text-hook and regulation bv which he will be surrounded. Let him find his great life interest in whatever he is fitted to practice and to study. If the days of fighting should come, he will be all the more serviceable because he is at his best in what he is best suited to accomplish." ; When the war broke out Monash was , a colonel of militia in his native state. Victoria. Also, he was In command of ; the Australian intelligence corps, com- 1 posed of citizen officers. The formation of the three first expeditionary brigades I found him an applicant for a command. ! but others were given service before he was selected. For a short time he filled ! the office of censor-in-chief. i Then, a fresh brigade beiner required for Gallipoll. he obtained the command of it. "Monash Gully" on the tragic peninsula penin-sula commemorates the fact that he and his brigade did yeoman service there. In France, because of his reputation gained by his organization of the Third Australian diviston. he has been regarded regard-ed in many quarters as the commonwealth's common-wealth's greatest soldier. |