A TRIP OVER SOMME BATTLEFIELDS.
GRAPHIC ACCOUNT vBY CEN-
ERAL GODLEY
Press Association Telegram.
WELLINGTON, June 26. “I have received excellent reports of the work of Brigadier-General Ohaytor and the New Zealand Mounted Brigade in Egypt, from General ter to the Alinister for Defence.
“I have just come back from the Somme where I went to see Bapaume and the country beyond and to inspect the New Zealand: stationary hospital which I had never yet been able to visit. Tlie latter lias extended lately into three bouses, one of which is an officers’ hospital. It seems to me to be run extremely well, and the officers, some of whom I know, seemed to be comfortable and expressed satisfaction with their treatment. It is most interesting to see the country between Albert and Bapaume. You cannot imagine what a picture of the abomination of deslolation it is—nothing as far as the eye can reach but waste of shell craters, one touching the other and/ the whole country is brown and treeless with no habitation in sight. One can just make out from what is left of bricks and timbers where the villages of Pozieres and Le Sars once stood and that is all.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4596, 27 June 1917, Page 5
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