DARING AND RESOURCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1916, Page 5

DARING AND RESOURCE.

| GALLANT NEW ZEALANDERttii i CAPTURE OF MACHINE-GUNS^ Vw London, October JA Writing of the British movements to« \ wards Bapaume, Mr, IPercival Phillips instances some heroic feats to the credit of New Zealanders, who were-en-gaged, among others, in smoothing out the kinks from a ne\v stretch of ground, I They H ere all in the days' work, yet I greater devotion to duty could) not I have been shown in the most import-1 ant attack. He mentions the case of a Canterbury sergeant who led his bombers against a strip of German trench, during night lighting, lie bayoneted all the members of a machine-gun sec, tion, turned a gun on tlw other Qep>! mans, and when he had cleared them out or killed them he carried the, guttj back to the British line. ( An Auckland private, working with A bombing squad in ono of the Flers group of trenches, saw some Canterbury, comrades hard pressed by the enemy. He collected his party, jumped on the parapet and ran along bombing the intruders. ITc saved the flank of thai position and repulsed a determined] counter-attack. Some Otago men had' to dig a trench in the open as part of the. new British position. They beset by snipers till one of their num-j her—a crack shot—crawled among the) craters with bis rifle and silenced them J Mr. Phillips mentions that on two, occasions non-commissioned officers command of detachments when all the, officers bad been killed. A sergeant of, the Otagos showed exceptional coolness as he led the men in a counter-attack.' A private rallied some bombers during a heavy night, fighting, when a had been taken and lost several times, and it was due to his initiative that a sap was captured which, enabled* the position to be finally held. Another private formed one of a, garrison of an outpost on the right flank of a new position which became isolated. The others retired. He held on till his ammunition gave out, when ho too fell, back, having killed many Germany >