HOW NEW ZEALANDERS FIGHT.
« GENERAL GODLEY'S PITHY REPORT.
(SPECIAL. TO "THE PiIESS.") AVELLINGTON, July 2.3. An interesting account of a little engagement on Gallipoli Peninsula, m which corns of tho New Zealanders were engaged, is given in o letter received by the Minister of Defence from General Godley:— "Last night,'-' the letter roads, "tho Canterbury Battalion made a sortie from one oP our posts which sticks out in a salient at the head of a gully rather in the advance of the rest of our line. They got into Turk- - ish trenches, bayonetted a lot of them, and took 28 prisoners, but when daylight came they were kicked out by" a new kind of large bomb for which they wore unprepared. A few nights ago. at the sam? post, the Turks came into o"r trenches, whore they left 30 dead and 13 prisoners before we kicked them out. Trench mortars, sharp-shootiug, and the bayonet aro our weapons of warfare, and.we live in a cramped and perpetual atmosphere of shelling and -niping. However, wo hope that a push forward from tlio south will soon come, which will free us from thi_ det.stablp situation."
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15339, 24 July 1915, Page 9
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192HOW NEW ZEALANDERS FIGHT. Press, Volume LI, Issue 15339, 24 July 1915, Page 9
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