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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 201, 26 September 1916, Page 2

man carried on a stretcher. He was determined his comrade should be relieved of his painful crawl. He saw two Germans, scared to death, running for a shell hole, shouting "Kamerad." The Hawkes Bay man shouted to them to stop. They did not comprehend, but he picked up a rifle; and they quickly understood. They approached and dropped on their knees, after which a burly Hun carried the Dunedinite a mile and a half to the rear. The Pioneer Battalion suffered while digging communication trenches under the barrage intended to prevent supports approaching." Before the battle, General Birdwoou again appeared, unescorted, in almost every trench, renewing acquaintance with his Gallipoli veterans. The men speak in the highest terms of Geneiv Kussell. They express surprise at seeing a cinenma operator in the front trenches on Friday morning, coolly filming the advance. The men say, "It would do our people good to the magnificent steadiness of that great attack." A Kaitangata boy, badly hit in the jaw, speaking from behind his bandages, said: "According to General Haig's latest, our chaps are still there holding the line. You can bet your life they will stick it as long as needed." The wounded men are concentrated at Brcckenhurst and Walton. As soo*» as convalescent they will be sent to Hornchurch and Codford. Some, owing to pressure, were sent to isolated hospitals, but were quickly discovered and transferred to the New Zealand hospitals, all of which are working smoothly. There are no complaints, and the men especially appreciate the New Zealand mutton and butter."

UNITED FRANCE. LONDON, Sept. 23. The Chamber voted provisional war credits by 448 to 4. The United Socialist Party supported the credits, explaining that not a single Socialist would accept a peatfe which would leave France mutilated. ENEMY AMMUNITION EXPLODED. LONDON, Sept. 23. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Artillery exploded an ammunition dump east of Bctliune. FROM THE "BIG PUSH." WELLINGTON, This Day. Casualty List No. 411 is as follows: Killed in Action: Captain G_ K. Armstrong, Captain J. F. K. Hunter, Second Lieutenant J. S. Dagg, SecondLieutenant G. B. Sheridan, L. S. Jennings. Died of Wounds: A. J. Gittings, W. H. Russell, Captain H. S. Tremewan. Died of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis: J. Hampson. Reported Missing: Second-Lieutenant A. D. Bremner, Scoond-Lieutenant R. D. McLean_ Missing, Believed Wounded: Lieut. J. E. Cuthill, Lieut. A. Y. Valentine. Correction: Previously reported wounded, now reported not wounded, bit evacuated sick: H. H. Morton_ Wounded: J. Owens, Temp-Major W. G. Wray, Captain D. E. Bremner, Captain. G. H. Ferguson, Second-Lieut A % C. Cooper, Second-Lieut. E. G. Hewitt, Second-Lieut. G. D. Page, SecondLieut, G. A. Tuck, Second-Lieut. E. E. Hudson, Lieut. J. H. Barr, Lieut. J. B. Strathers, Lieut. T. F. Christian, Lieut. A, B: MacDougall, Lieut. M. M. Watt. Second-Lieut. D. D. Dun, SecondLieut. L. A. Morison, Second-Lieut. P. Pile, Second-Lieut. P. A. Spurdlc, Temp. Lieut. D. W. McClurg, Riflm A. B. Ayling, Captain H. A. Good,. T. J. McCarthy, G. Lorenz, G. R. Garrett, Lnc-Corpl. P. Neilson, Riflm J. Combe, -Riflm. C. Fyfe, Riflm. E. Grecnhalgh, Riflm. J. C. Mcßratney.