NEW ZEALAND TROOPS PRAISED.
GENERAL HAMILTON'S TRIBUTE. Dunedin, Monday. . The Hon. Jas. Allen, Minister for defence, has received the following cablegram from Sir lan Hamilton to-night:—"Warmest thanks for your cablegram, which haß been communicated to thn troopa. The corps commander under whom the New Zealand troops are serving reports as follows, and I fully endorse all that he says: — " I cannot tell you how magnificently the whole of the New Zealand troops—artillery, mounted rifles, infantry, and Maoris —have done in our recent very severe fighting. Trench after trench, and ridge aflor ridge, were successfully taken hy them,and over country as precipitous and difficult as that which we took on landing. "Among our fallen comrades, the whole force deeply deplores the deaths of Colonel Malone and Colonel Bauchop, who had proved themselves first-class soldiers and real loaders in the field."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 797, 18 August 1915, Page 5
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