THREE YEARS AGO.
SECOND PASSCHENDAELE PHASE. It is three years to-day since the New Zealanders made their second assault on ■the heights of Passchendaele, and opened another phase in the bitter fighting in Flanders extending over several months. The New Zealand casualties were very heavy in this battle. When the New Zealanders "went over" on October 4 and captured Abraham Heights and Gravenstafel the conditions were bad, but not impossible. In the interval rain had fallen almost continuously, 'so that streams overflowed and became extensive swamps, shellholes filled with water (and here the shell-holes were so thick that they ran i?ito one another), and over all the continuous bombardment had strewn the ground with broken wire and all the wreckage of an old battlefield. These were the conditions on October 12, 101.7, when, on a cold, wet morning, the New Zealanders attacked. Even without a terrific German bombardment progress over such country provided a test in endurance and perseverance, but the New Zealanders swept .ahead, smashed the German defences, and added further laurels to their splendid lighting record.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 4
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178THREE YEARS AGO. Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1920, Page 4
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