ANOTHER ANZAC RAID.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1916, Page 8

ANOTHER ANZAC RAID.

"GIVE CANADA LIMELIGHT." (By Capt. C. E. W. Bean, Common wealth Official Correspondent). British Headquarters, France, June 14, Yesterday morning, in the small hours, the Australians again raided the German trenches. As before, this raid was preceded by a sharp bombardment. Tiie arrangements worked like clockwork down to the smallest detail. The 1-arty, which was chosen from one of the earlier Victorian battalions, spent several interesting minutes in the German front trench. Thc,v pulled six prisoners out of the dug-outs, bombed others, killed several Germans, ami returned with prisoners at a total cost of two wounded. Within half-an-hour ot the first gun being tired the party was safely back. The uproar of the guns then censed, and the night was quiet again. These raids are small affairs, but are common along the whole line. They are always gratifying when the arrangements work -0 perfectly as on these two occasions. At the same time I have been constantly asked by many Anzac oiiicers and men to state again, what I stated strongly some weeks ago, that the An/ac troops do not claim or desire tiie public attention which has been directed to these small feats. Wherever one goes in the trenches one finds that both the men and officers are very sensitive on this point, and that they rather dread the undoubted tendency of the people of Britain and Australia to exaggerate the feats of the An::acs. They all realised that the line they hold does not bear the faintest resemblance to awkward corners, such as the Ypres salient, which was held by the British I. oops for nearly two years. Officers of the Anzac Battalion's mess expressed what I believe to be the general wish of the whole force, when they said to me to-day, referring to the tremendous bombardments which v.'e heard at interthroughout the .week from the far north, "It is the Canadians who should be in the limelight now."