HOWITZER’S GOOD WORK.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 2

HOWITZER’S GOOD WORK.

FEATURE OF NEW ZEALANDERS’ FIGHTING. .

In a paragraph written the other day on the occasion of the announcement t-hat Majok N. B. Falla had been made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, some reference was made to that officer’s ability and keenness as an artillery officer.

Major Falla, in a kecent letter to his home* town, Dunedin,- remarked that the work of the howitzer battery had been specially commended by General Birdwood. “Our own howitzers,” he says, ‘' aVe the only ones of that kind as-hore hero, and as they are th e most reliable modern gun of the type, practically all the ticklish firing falls on us.” Talking of ticklish firing, Major Falla mentions the vdfy narrow margin to work on in the .feat of shooting lyddite “to within about ton yards of our own trenches, about IT miles off. ’ ’ The least error would have smashed the wrong men, and no such calamity occurred.