GALLANTRY OF COLONIALS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1915, Page 6

GALLANTRY OF COLONIALS.

NUMBERS SADLY DEPLETED, ! I By Telegraph.—flPrcss AiMcuUloa. Wanganui, Yesterday. General Sir A. Godley writes to Colonel Hughes praising the gallantry of the troops and says: "It is imposible to find in military history anything finer than the night march of the Wellington Mounted Rifles through a desperate | scrub-covered country on August 6, rushing the Turkish pickets as they went; or the assault of the Wellington Infantry Battalion on the morning of August 8." General Godley adds: "We are woefully depleted in numbers at present, an infantry brigade being only 1200 instead of 4000, and the mounteds 400 instead of 2000." A PRISONER OF WAR. WELL TREATED. Wanganui, Yesterday. A letter received here by his brother from Sergeant George McAnemy, who is a prisoner-of-war in the Hospital Militaire, Ma Tepe, Constantinople, dated August 20, says:—"l have had the bad luck to get wounded and captured. Our boys took a trench and got cut up, and the trench was retaken by the Turks. I got wounded by a bomb which burst in a trench. I was hit twice in the upper part of the left arm, twice in the forearm, and once in the leg and also the hand, from which a piece of bomb is now extracted after being in eleven days, during which I have suffered awful agony. The other wounds are nearly healed and lam now O.K. It was the hottest corner I was ever in—a dozen hells rolled into one. The trench was a shambles and was filled to the top with dead and dying, lying three and four deep. I never want to see anything like it any more. I saw the gamest boys in the world go down at dawn that morning. We are being treated well and the wounded are well cared for." The letter came through the Switzerland Red Cross.