BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THE SOMME

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 5

BATTLE INCIDENTS ON THE SOMME

ANZACS AT POZIERES 'AMERICAN APPRECIATION Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New_York, August 7. Tho "Evening World" print 3 «. dispatch from tho British front which commends tho Anzacs, "who for (bys had been holding, grimly, the village 1 of Pozieros under a tornado of Ger- • man: shells. They charged on a twomile front, sweeping the Germans several hundred yard!? baik. 'JTiq opinion at headquarters'is that the value cf the gain cannot be estimated. A week of fighting in- saps and with bombs preceded tho. attack, the Australians and • , New Zealaudors, admidst a volcano of shells, under a blazing sun, in steaming trenches,iworking ..towards tho -front with pick and spade." .. A GERMAN ARMY ORDER .WHAT POZIERES MEANT TO THE BRITISH. (Rec. August 8, 7.10 p.m.) London, August 7. The Central News Agency's correspondent writes: —"The Anzacs and Kents made a brilliant advance up tho Pozieres plateau in tho direction of : Martinpuich, splendidly carried two lines of trenches, end. advanced,- two ' hundred yards on the p'ateau. General von Bulow's army ordc-r, found on prisoners, said: : 'Wo mi.st at all costs recapture the Poizeros plateau. If tho British retain this it will give them a valuable advantage: It must be retaken forthwith. Troops first gaining a foothold must maintain'it at what-, ever sacrifice,' pending the arrival i'f . reinforcements. Any officer or man not resisting to tho death will immediately bo eonrt-martialled.' "