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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1918, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALANDERS

FRONT COMPARATIVELY QUIET,

WELLINGTON, April 18

The following mesoge- dated April 14th, has been received from the Now Zealand official war correspondent, Mr Malcqjm Ross: At the present we are really more interested in tho northern battle than our own, for we know every inch of tho country over which the Germans have been advancing and have made/ reminiscences of the headquarters, we occupied and the homes we lived in there, when first we came to France and after tflie* Somme battle. Many of 'these have now passed into German hands. While the guns in that battle ara'heard clearlv in England no sound of it reaches us here.

For the past few days the activity on our front has been confined almost I entirely to artillery fire. During the greater part of the day this is normal but at times it reaches a giant crescendo, and the crashing of the big guns engaged during the night in harrassing area shoots make sleep for the time being impossible. “The weather is one day being bright, warm, anfl sunshiny, other a “black thorn winter.”