NEW ZEALANDERS ASSIST IN RENEWED ATTACK
DIFFICULT TASK IN MUD AND AGAINST PILL-BOXES. (Received 9.35 a.m.) BRITISH HEADQUARTERS, October 12. T_e New Zealand Division, with its other units, took part in the renewed attack on Passchendaele Ridge at dawn. After a day of sunshine the weather again changed in the night, and the attack started under difficulties in rain and deep, sticky mud. Under the circumstances progress was necessarily slow especially as the position attacked was strongly defended with machinegunners in pill-boxes behind uncut wire. The stretcher-bearers never worked more heroically than they did to-day, their difficulties being increased owing to mud and the long carries. (Special from the New Zealand War Correspondent, Mr. Malcolm Ross.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 246, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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