PERCIVAL PHILLIP’S STORY
NEW ZEALANDERS SUCCESS. A BRISK FIVE MINUTES. ('Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON April 4. Mr "Percival Phillips 'writes (that the New Zealanders on Sunday night gained one of the most important local victories since the present hill began which was carried out with lightning, speed. They captured, in seven minutes the Hebuterne-Auchonvillers road, which the Germans strongly held, depriving the enemy of the necessary observation there. Elements belonging to four divisions were jammed into a confused mass. The New Zealanders found illO machine guns among the debris, in addition to nearlv three hundred prisoners including three officers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1918, Page 3
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