FORTY MILES IN SIX WEEKS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 24, 23 October 1918, Page 6

FORTY MILES IN SIX WEEKS

I'HB NEW ZEALANDERS' ADVANCE FROM HEBUTERNE. [Special Dispatch from the Official War Correspondent.)

October 19. Sinco tho New Zealand Division started on the great drive from tlie region of Hebuterne, it has in five and a half weeks advanced forty miles, fighting its way over thirty-seven miles of this dis-' tarice, capturing over COOO prisoners and 59 guns and nearly a thousand machineguns. Of the prisoners captured, one hundred and eighty were officers, and over eight hundred were wounded and received the best treatment at the hands of our Medical Corps. On the line of its long trek lio many German dead, and there must also have been a large number of wounded who got back to the German dressing stations. Numbers of the wounded died at the German casualty clearing stations. Graves in a German cemetery at Lcsdin bore witness to this fact. \ Throughout the education scheme and (he entertainment of officers and men have not been neglected. Lectures ha\.. been delivered by eminent British professors, and a company of divisional entertainers is playing nightly to audiences of close upon a thousand soldiers. Another theatre party is playing,for charities in Paris, and a Rugby football team goes to play important matches in Paris and other towns. Though the men deplore the loss of bravov comrades, they are in good health and spirits and ready t> fight for unconditional surrender. Everyone realises that the German Army is at last beaten in the field.