"NEW ZEALANDERS' FAULTLESS WORK."

Taranaki Daily News, 12 January 1917, Page 7

"NEW ZEALANDERS' FAULTLESS WORK."

The Manchester Guardian of Xoven>her 11 contains a letter' from its 'correspondent at the British Headquarters in France, .vho, after eulogising the services of the several overseas contingents oji the Somme, concludes as follows: "Of troops from the self-governing Dominions, there remains to be mentioned oriry the Xew Zealanders. Whatever they have been set to do, they have done, and, what is more important, they have never failed'to inflict losses on the enemy far out of proportion to the casualties which they have suffered. In the - fine share which they took in the capture of. Fleurs, and still more in the hard fighting which went on to the north and northwest of that stricken village, when they forced their way with bomb and bayonet along the German thirdmain line, and cleared out the labyrinth of strong point and trench and sunken roads up to and beyond the level o? lEaucourt l'Abbaye, the Xew Zealanders did -practically faultless work. They were a "tower of strength to the troops on both their right hand and their left, always doing what they were expected to do, and always being where they ought to have been."