CHANGE WELCOMED
Next day the foremost troops dug in and found the clay easy going compared with the rock and stones of the desert. Camouflage was easy, too, and everything so different, with the chance of action after many weary months of waiting, that enthusiasm led them on to feats of digging that can be described as phenomenal. The country was likened to that around Taihape, in the North Island. There was great enthusiasm among the New Zealand units when Germany declared war on Greece, for the men felt that at last the hour had come to strike and be able to put to good use the lessons learned during their lengthy training.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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113CHANGE WELCOMED Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1941, Page 6
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