FROM OTHER SOURCES.
NEW ZEALANDERS’ WARM WORK LONDON, April 8. The British Headquarters correspondent states that tho three attacks against the New Zealanders proved horribly costly to the enemy on each occasion. The New Zealanders continued firing the Lewis guns until the rapidly thinning waves of the enemy were sufficiently close. They then bombed them furiously with hand grenades. It is easy to believe the assurance that the Bodies disliked this form of resistance, as their dead are lying like corn swathes at harvest time before the New Zealanders’ positions. The Germans are bringing immense numbers of guns of every calibre into the struggle. We are combating the onslaught pretty adequately.
GERMAN WARNING. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) ZURICH, April 8. German newspapers eemi-officially-warn that there will he severe penalties for anvone so reading alarmist rumours reptfarding the Army’s losses in the West.
The “ Neust-e Nachrichten ” states rumours are spreading in Germany, that Austria is seeking to negotiate for a separate peace, with which the public connects the sudden pause in the German offensive, and Count Czerniu t> speech.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1918, Page 2
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