OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT.
STILL IN .A QUIET PART. (Special from the .N.Z. Official War Correspondent.) January 1. The New Year finds us stid in. a <[iiiet part of the line, with nothing special doing beyond the usual rather monotonous round of trench warfare. While a good deal of work and is bein" done, time is also found for football, lectures, and entertainments. General Russell, in response to a request for a message to X: \v Zealand, said lie would like, above al! tilings, on the eve of (lie New Ye v.', to let the Dominion know how largely the success of the division in the Somme battle was due to the efforts of tlu men tiiemselves. His officers agreed with him that the Somme was a battle in which individual qualities of .the men and leadership of subordinate officer.-, from company commanders downvards, were the chief .factors of success. Their relatives in Nen Zealand should be proud to know that these splendid fellows, from first to last, had played their parti like meiv
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1917, Page 5
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175OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT. Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1917, Page 5
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