NEWS FROM THE FRONT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 228, 14 June 1918, Page 5

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

{THE NEW ZEALANDERS FIGHTING.

"I do feel that .although the German as at present rushing his fences with Bomo success, he will fall very heavily before lie gets to the last one." This was the opinion' of a British General expressed in a letter dated April 28, received by Sir James Alleu by this last mail, .Rcforring to the exploits of the hew Zeaianders, h:> wrote: "They indeed did r.iagniiicently iir the fighting bouvli of Arras, and "thoir • bog of aachimguns was really wonderful." Sir Jumps Allen nlso received ,\ let*tr from General Godloy, from which he gave tho following extracts for publication:—"Since 1 Inst wrote you will have heard that the Now Zealand Division wont south'" and arrived just in timo to help to stem the Bocho advance there. ' I heard very jjood accounts of what they did. Their first attempt since tho landing on Clallipoli at what was practically open warfare seems to have been on the whole quite successful. '!Up hero wo havo had very strenuous time 6, as you .will havo seen from the newspapers. ' Anything that we could lay our hande on had to bo pressed into tho line, among them being tho Second New Zealand Entrenching Battalion, inade up of reinforcements and tho remnants of tho Fourth . Brigade. They did excellent service. They havo now, i am glad to say, been taken out again, «md gono back to' thoir proper role as reinforcements for the division. I also had to form a company of all sorts o! odds and ends of my corps Headquarters, among them being soma men of the New Zealand Employment Company. They did excellent work 'in filling a': breach in the line. Similarly New Zealand cyclists of my corps mounted troop 3 ■were employed, and did well. ' "Tho fighting has been desporate, but the men havo fought magnificently, and considering the- force to which wo were attacked the Germans have not made anything liko the progress they had hoped f0r....

"Reinforcements come- up well and quickly, but the difficulty is to get time for reorganisation. . And, of course, ire do still want a tremendous number more men."