NEW ZEALAND FRONT
ENEMY OUT OF PUISIEUX
{ADSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 17th, August.
The Daily Chronicle's correspondent at British Headquarters states that lie visited the New Zealanders, who are facing the Germans where the latter recently withdrew west of Bapaunle. He says:— "The New Zealanders early on the mornirigr of 14th August found the ground before them unoccupied. Two large bodies passed forward 600 yards and encountered resistance on the right, and trench fighting continued all day. One party turned a strong, redoubt on the enemy's left, and captured it with prisoners, but the enemy held the main positions until dark. Meanwhile patrols, creeping, forward north-west of Puisieux, found the enemy still in the trenches. Next day other patrols, which cautiously entered Puisieux, found the place apparently unoccupied. A small party laid their arms aside and were resting, when forty Germans suddenly sprang from the ruin's, and wounded a corporal. The New Zeafflnders. quitted the^ place, taking their rifles, but leaving their equipment. When they.returned the enemy had gone. Puisieux is now ours, and as soon as we choose we can occupy it."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 7
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184NEW ZEALAND FRONT Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 7
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