DEATH OF A BRAVE NEW ZEALANDER.
DIED ON VOLUNTEER DUTY.
(Received 10.50 a.m.) London, December 21
Corporal lilcii Rawlins, a New Zealander, a member of the 26th London territorials, was killed while cutting the enemy's entanglements, a duty for . hicli he had volunteered. OFFICIAL. The High Commissioner reports from London, under date 21st December, at r ) p.m. :—Paris reports that from Lys :o the Aisne, the Allies had taken the vood, occupying two trenches. The French heavy artillery silenced different parts of the enemy's artillery, overwhelming the German trenches and smashing two guns. Appreciable gains were made in Champagne, and in the Argonne, near Beousejour, twelve hundred yards of trenches were taken, fn the Argonne and Meuse progress »vas made along the whole front. On the right bank of the Meuse ground was gained near Brabant.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 304, 22 December 1914, Page 5
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136DEATH OF A BRAVE NEW ZEALANDER. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 304, 22 December 1914, Page 5
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