THE NEW ZEALANDERS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 42, 17 August 1918, Page 7

THE NEW ZEALANDERS

EXPERIENCES WITH THE

AMERICANS.

(Special Despatch from the New Zealand Official War Correspondent.) 9th August. His Majesty the King to-day held an inveßtituro at the front, at which the New Zealand commander received his K.C.B.

10th August. For some time past we have been seeing a great deal of our American friends, officers being attached to our division for training and men for experience. Eecently two of the more adventurous who were out on patrol with some of our men came to grips with the Germans, and one was killed, but before he fell he had bayoneted three Germans. Subsequently another of our patrols found his body, minus his tunic. The tunic had been taken, no doubt, for identification by the enemy. Already the Americans and New Zealanders are as brothers. One big American, who was having his first experience of the muddy front-line trenches, when asked for his opinion of our men, said with heartiness : "The Noo Zealanders will do me!" Fine, tall, well-set-up men these chaps were,. and very keen to learn. New Zealand officers told me that whenever they heard there were Prussians near them they were keen to go out and have a go at them.