THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3571, 4 October 1916, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALANDERS.

s^PP.RECIATIVE ARTICLES

(Renter's Message.)

. LONDON, October 3. Mr. W. Beach Thomas gives a' cou~ ' tinuous record, individual and corporate, of the brilliant doeds of tiho New Zealanders. Ho says they wero ' particularly successful in the breaking i of. old German . frenchoe, and states .that they) were officially complimented 'recently on the quickness and smoothness of their chief advance.

Scores of stories are -told of theirdaring. , -. . One sergeant, it is said,, snaked his way to, a' machine-gun emplacement,. [ bayoneted every member of tho crewr and used the gun to ih'e greatest' effect against ■ the enemy. " Continually during the advance," Mr Beach Thomas remarks, "wo havo been putting out of action many German batteries. Never 'previously havo the enemy's gunners so suffered, our direct hits repeatedly smashing . their batteries, which lire frequently seen lying broken under twisted girders." Thore' hav*e been many instances of ' tho German fright referred to in tho " Bavarian order of the day. They are now largely increasing,' particularly in' the form ■of . wisd rifle-fire anil useless-bomb-throwing. , Keutor's correspondent .at . Headquarter:! stsii.es that a'party of New Zealanders was iaolnted on the night of September 21. They were ordered to' retire. A Canterbury private re-, iriained behind and covered their retreat by loading and firing incessantly, killing numbers of the enemy, arid finally escaping. An Ota go snipe?-, on seeing tho bat--talidn severely suftV.rinp from shell- . fire and snipers while digging m thq^ oppn. 'obtained permission 1 to" go but*. to deal with the snipers. IT« ; crawled"' from successive craters until' ho; got close to them, when b^» niclcd off several, appreciably . diminishing' ihb danger. • ■ . '