NIGHTMARE BATTLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 6

NIGHTMARE BATTLES

3RUTAU GERMAN SAVAGERY /'GUNG MAORI SOLDIER’S STORY. ORDEAL OF DIVE-BOMBING. i ■ *.-lerraph—Press Association —Copyright) Received This Day. 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. ' ninetsc-n-year-old Maori serwho. with a companion, es- - ":-am Oete after being badly ■ -gave a detailed story of - I'-vtlr-- and brutal GerAn Australian des- | : -. ■he pair to a Middle ■ ■V. vfiio was j hot j :-:nv bad his I ■ -/ ihraoneh and nis •n was severely o thigh, trekked for n the White Motin- j -hi... ;it food, before a des- ■ ■•n' raid:- "If we had had j ; ■- <;< ■ , j n Crete would I : ■ . /' ’’?d in hours. ' Our 'terr; fi cd the Germans. We <•... n r , quarter and received ~ ••• all clay at the mercy of , r ni-.n-boipjaers. When night • n bayonets, charged and -- u - to dawn in the : i- rm-i most inhuman battles. ■' be.'.alien and another New : bn'tilkvi formed a thin line ; ' - -ra to the hills, to check thethrust ?< Canea. We lay in vud. watching until our eyes . on shower of parachu- •; down. We lay among .-I; ■ and hi cirains—anything giving bom. the relentless hail of and bullets and had to keep i .-i ■ opr.'-; sheathed and lie motionless -.mile th ? sun was up, so as not to I f ..,,. p o q-tions. We shouted a! halts as we charged in the dark. Our •win obstacle on the first night was a solid line of machine-guns, but we quickly overran it and annihilated practically every German within reach, iiit at daylight waves of German — arrived. rX'MY CUT TO PIECES. hundred and thirty troop-car-■■■nded. under the escort of clouds " ’ i'rs and 200 dive-bombers at; ■ l:s. The Germans established ; :r oi. in the positions we had 1 Dr:ini’ the night. With the ren: >-, >f dtniTiss we again fitted bay-.n-tr charged and again cut the ■ >, >.t.- u.s piccr ■'. This wont on for four : iiighfs. Parachutists were ' o’wvi nur lines and we hac- ;■■ give ground, hit by bit. and take up i. wi n?- Eventually, during an ;■ j.- ■•iri't enemy machine-gun ■ hi b" , ’oro dusk one evening my - ; .- -P!■ r ~nPer was shot dead in ■■ ,>]' .r roryiod on b't* was shot ; ■ ... irn ,. and er?"'lod to the ' ■ ■ ; .■ t ’inder’.vont an ooeration :■ : . •.--'m table in a shattered r.;. t had no anaesthetic siir-o reserved for major ■ : < tbe doctors had fln-U:!’>-d. ; i - i’ a of water and led : r,n■■■ ~f r.-r,pines to positions after Umi v-as again wounded in the WARCH TO COAST. a . . r companion ’ rord.;- fo 1 ' + ho h ; iJs and reached ■ ■ • >■ rv’no cvnviookinV Canea. u. p * rinhsfi l ! three-days’ • I, i cons' T + was imnossible : /.-o t’-nn +bvoA yards in the -d" w?:: "'i'houf Lepriing on dead Doctors of their dead wore n w-. in F'e mnon'nins where the k„,i i-nicd them Such slnughfc"n i n be believed. Dead ;.arc.'■!■,■:‘:"'s ewijrw fmm branches of ? '.. nn^]e d by their own pararh:i/n cords. MAT! RPSTIALITY. ( “T!-o hof-Mn'ity cf the cnemv kn«w'| no haurd". They u ;fi~h <, rod the crip-I nfnd n”' J d'dnr v/’'’" 11 <—w it mvrntf Th- i.ufty/nffe drnpnod on our line- rnvino that. OW;nn fa »h<, ni|r-od iI!-t I'catmenf of Gerooon iq Greece,, the German !.;:qk O.nm-'rn'l had ordered ■‘hat every