NEW ZEALAND BATTERY'S EXCELLENT WORK
\ UPON COLONEL PLUGGE'S PLATEAU. \ AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS LIKE ONE BIG FAMILY '\ (Received 2.20 p.m.) \l'' LONDON, June 20. Reuters correspondent at Cairo, following up liis communication on tlie result of interviews with the wounded, says:— The wounded state that the Australians and New Zealanders get on ■plendidly together, and are like one big family. A number of Australians recently sent a message to No. 2 New Zealand BatteiT, which did excellent work upon Colonel Plugge"s plateau, "Go it, mates; no need for us to use our rifles while you fire like that." The men are so keen that they do not desire tolcave the trenches. The ICth Battalion of the 3rd Australian Infantry was five weeks in the trenches before being relieved. The Australian war-cry on the peninsula is "linshi Valla/ Arabic words, meaning "Be off, move on." Before the Triumph was sunk she did excellent work in cutting off Turkish reinforcements coming up the gullies near Gaba Tepe. Captain Wallingford, the cx-champkm shot of the British Army, and hie New Zealand machine gun are one of the mainstays of the force on Sari Bair.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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