THE ATTACK ON KRITHIA.
NEW ZEALANDERS MEET A HOT FIRE.
(Received July 31, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 31. _ | Captain Bean, writing on Juno 5, describes. the New Zealanders' attack I on Krithia on May 8. They advanced with the Wellington Battalion on the left, Auckland in the centre, Canterbury on tho right, and the Otago men in reserve. Both flanking battalions advanced 300 yards, hut the Auckland men faced a terrible machine gun fire. There was a patch in front of them known as the "daisy field," which not one man in five succeeded in crossing. Finally, the Auckland men were reinforced by half the Otago Battalion and a general advance of French, British, and Australians, was ordered, after a general bombardment.
During the advance, the New Zealandors were pulled up by a tremendous fire in the "daisy field," where the Auckland force lost 13 officers.
The .advance of the Australians was so rapid that they outdistanced the New Zealanders, who met with furious opposition in the centre, hut finally succeeded in joining up with the Australians after dark.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 2733, 31 July 1915, Page 5
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