BATTLE-SWEPT BAPAUME.
A PICTURE OF DESOLATION.
(press association telegram.}
WELLINGTON, Juno 20
"I haVe received excellent reports of the work of Brigadier-General Chsivtor and tho New Zealand Mounted Brigade in Egypt, from General says General Sir A. Codley, iii a letter to the Minister of Defence. "I have just como back from the Sonuno, where I went to see Bnpmimo and the country beyond it, and to inspect the New Zealand Stationary Hospital, which I had never yet been a bio to visit. Tho latter has extended lately /into three houses, one of -which is an officers' hospital. It seems to mo to be run extremely well, and the officers, some, of whom I knew, see mod to be comfortable and expressed satisfaction with thoir treatment.
"It is most interesting to see tho country bp! worn AHxTt and Bnpaumo. You cannot imagine what a picture of desolation it is; nothing as far as tlio eye can roach bnt .1 wasto of shell orators, ono touching the other, antl thn whole country lirown and treeless, with no habitation in sight. _ One can just makts out from what is left of the brinks and timber where the villages of Po/.ieres and Lo Sars onco stood, and that is all."
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15938, 27 June 1917, Page 6
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