GREAT FIGHT BY NEW ZEALANDERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2550, 26 August 1915, Page 5

GREAT FIGHT BY NEW ZEALANDERS

- A VIVID STORY ~ prr .Attack with cold steel MAORI WAR' CRY ON GALLIPOLI GERMAN PEACE TALK A 'SECRET CONCLAVE GERMAN-AMERICAN CRISIS - V- ■- Local interest in to-day's news from the theatres of the war will ■be quickened by the vivid narrative, from the pen of Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, of the part played by the colonials in the recent severe fighting in Gallopoli. Mr. Bartlett has given a great deal of space to the work tf the New.Zealanders, and the dispatch makes thrilling reading—Maori war-cries, flashing steel, and fierce hand-to-hand conflicts were tho v principal sights and- sounds of the. battle. The Germans, semi-officially, deny the loss of their battle-cruiser Moltke in the Gulf of Riga. Events on the Eastern front indicate a further retirement by the Russians, who, however, are holding the enemy at certain points. The. reports from the Italian front and the Western theatre are mainly of a routine nature. Reports from Dutch sources make references to what must have been, if true, a. remarkable conclave at Berlin before the War Loan Bill was introduced into tho Reichstag. If the report is an accurate reflection of what took place, - then the leading men of the German nation have grasped tho fact that they cannot win the war, and that peace is the thing most to be desired at present.