QUIET DAYS ON NEW ZEALAND FRONT
[Special Dispatch from the New Zealand Official Correspondent.! August 10. While we listen to the thundor of the gun 9 further south, our own lino remains ouiot. The other day not a single casualty was reported in the whole of the division—rather a remarkable occurrence. Our patrols continue to do good work, and to bring in some prisoners from time to time. The enemy is constantly harried 'by our artillery, trench mortars, and machine-guns'. A diary recently found on a dead officer shows cleai'ly that the German troops have been having a trying time in tliis sector He refers to several being killed pnd wounded, and states that in Rossignol' Wood on one occasion 25 men of one company were poisoned by a delay in the action of a shell, which burst on the catacombs i in which they were sheltering. The company had to shift, to the reserve dug-outs. He refers to the day tho "sturm truppen" were put into action as "a bloody day for men lired with constant duty." The weather has been very changeable. Tho health of the men is good, and the division was never stronger than at the present' moment.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 278, 13 August 1918, Page 5
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202QUIET DAYS ON NEW ZEALAND FRONT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 278, 13 August 1918, Page 5
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