NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3569, 2 October 1916, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION.

ROME HOT AVORK

TEMPORARILY STOPPED BY MACHINE GUNS.

(Special from tho N.Z. Official W:;r jCorrospomdont.) September 29. Sinco last cabling, the veterans nu.-,liod their offensive farther Jorward, capturing a section of two trenches that wore barring progress ou tho loft of Guoudocourt. Starting from thf factory enrncr. a strong point that they hud previously taken, tho Otagp, Cantfrbnry. ' and Auckland nion" sidvanood bohind a barrage. .Tlie Canterbury's and' somo Auokl/iriders 'outeixjd the tronch'cs without groat difficulty', but other Aucklii^ders, with some Otago inon, were KtoTiped by the enemy's wire and fame under raaehino gun fire. This section , rofoived reinforcements from the 'Wol- ' lino-tons, but, after stubborn figliMng. night foil, with tlie enemy still holding an angle* in the jwsition that had beoTi captured right and left. On the following day, the Rifles reinforced Auckland and Canterbury, and after, further fighting the position was made secure There was some confused but gallant fighting 1 in front of the er.emy's wire. - In the first day's offensive- the Rifles captured 422 prisoners in Flors, and the vicinity of tho battlefield still bears many signs of the fury of our attack. In the Switch Trench the

German- dead, in places, we.ro lying .shoulder to shoulder. j Wlicu I visited the battlefield yostoi- ! day the Gernuuis wei-e shelling Flors and Gueudecourt nnd'a cortfiin area of the country we had captured. It was a. ' cheering sight to see cavalry patrols advancing beyond Flors . upon G uouckcourt. During all this fighting the stretcherbearers and runners have done heroic work, several of the hitters, though wounded, getting messages to Company Commandors and then dropping i'rom exhaustion.