"WE ARE PROUD OF YOU?"

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 5

"WE ARE PROUD OF YOU?"

KITCHENER'S WORDS TO NVM ZEAL ANDERS. THE TURKS ACTIVE. COLONIALS REPULSE HOSPITAL AT SALONIKA. By Telegraph.—Press Association Wellington, Last Night., The following .special cable has beet received from the New Zealand official war correspondent (Mr. Malcolm Rob#)| dated Nov. 26th.:— '■ Lord Kitchener asked the first man he met on landing, "Are you an Australian?" The wan replied, *'l am <t New Zealander." Lord Kitchener an-: awered, "We are all very proud of youi jit Home, and they are very proud of you in your own country, too.'' Lor<i Kitchener's last words on leaving, to the New Zealand general then commanding the army corps, were, "I am very glad to have seen for myself all that tie, troops have done." Rcoentl.v the enemy artillery has been unusually activ« in the Anzac zone, alßo in bombing. At fiuvla they placed 150 shells on one nf our sections, causing one casualty. At Relies tilev opened a bombardment lasting nearly two hours and ' attacked under, cover of rifle Aire the flrst trenches recently captured by lis. Their counter-attacks were easily driven, off. Several of their dead can be seon lying in front of their trenches and few beyond their own wire.

Our naval and land guns are causing numerous casualties and considerable damage to the enemy works. The Turks are also being harried by our aircraft. The wether is bitterly cold, wih gales, thunder, and lightning, «ni rough seas in the gulf. Fresh equipment has arrived for the New Zealand hospital at Salonika, which is now proceeding nearer the front. Th« climate and other conditions being unisuitable, the nurses will remain in Egyptat laast for the present.