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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1918, Page 5

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STRONG ENEMY ATTACK. BROKEN BY NEW ZEALAXDERS. (From Captain -Malcolm Boss, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces.) By Cable.—April 5: Oji tli;> New Zealand front early this morning the enemy increased his artillery activity. He shelled our front line, searched the roads and buttery positions, and bombarded villages in which many civilians are still cHuging to their homes. Among the casualties was an old woman. A shell landed in her bedroom and blew oil' part of her leg and the foot We were aware tliat the enemy had brought up against ns the best part of a new reserve division, which had not been as yet in the great push, and his artillery preparation indicated that he was about to attack. At f) o'clock his advancing troops were seen through the drizzling rain and mist, advancing from the Serre Road on a front of 2000 yardsThey had probably overwhelmed some of our outposts, which were being held by only a few meiv At first the enemy came on in parties of fours and fives. Immediately the New Zealand rifles rang out, and the ma-chine-guns began to stutter with, deadly effect, and the German groups quickly melted away. These advance parties were followed by other waves, but they were met with a withering fire, and nowhere did they get nearer than 200 yards from our trenches.

Not content with their machine-gun and rifle fire, so eager were some of our men that they went over the parapet and advanced to meet ,the foe in No Man's Land, but in this new development the Germans had no heart to race the tall Zealanders. The attack seems to have been carried out by two regiments, each with two battalions in line. It was met by a numerically inferior force of New Zealand riflemen and machine-gunners, who dealt the German regiments a staggering blow, their dead being strewn about No Man's Land, while many there were ! wounded, and were soon limping sadly back to the trenches from came.

From the prisoners we gather that after the New Zealand line had been stormed the enemy troops were to push on to Colineamps Village, which was their objective—an advance of three thousand yards. Far from reaching this, they failed to gain entry, into a single yard of New Zealand trench. All the enemy has done is to make an insignificant little bulge in his own line at La Signy Farm, where he is attempting to dig in, but the process is costing him further lives, for our rifles, machineguns and artillery are now playing on the farm. The indications are that the enemy must have suffered the best part of a thousand casualties in addition to which our Lewis gunners shot down a German aeroplane. Our field guns are now pounding him to some purpose, while the heavier guns are not neglecting the targets further afield.