"SHOT UP EVERYTHING"
MAORIS' BRAVERY IN ITALY N.Z.E.F. Official War Correspondent DIVISIONAL, H.Q., Dec. 29. Two members of the Maori Battalion would disagree violently with the official report that the New Zealand sector was quiet yesterday. During the day they moved into the ruins of a razed house in a U-shaped bend of the Senio which overlooked the Germans on the other side of the river. From there they shot up everything that moved. The German reaction was a concentation of artillery fire on the house in the evening, followed by a raid by a patrol of eight men, who crossed the river and came unexpectedly on the house from the rear. However, the Maoris went to ground in a previously prepared hideout, and, although one German searched closely within bayonet thrust of them they were not discovered.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 1, 2 January 1945, Page 3
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