THE NEW ZEALANDERS

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 21 October 1915, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALANDERS

' PRAISE FROM GENERAL

GODLEY

WOEFULLY DEPLETED FORCES

"WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. . General Gotfley writes to Colonel Hughes praising! the gallaiitry\ of • the •New Zealand' troops. He says: "It is impossible to > find' in military history anythinp- finer than the night march of ibne Wellington Mounted Rifles through, desperate serub-eoveret! country on the 6th August, or the assault of the Wellington Infantry Battalion on tho Chmmk Bai'- hHghts .0n,.-the-morning of AiigTisfc Bth." General Godley adds: "We are woefully depleted in numbers at present, the Infantry Brigade being only 1200, instead of 4000. and the Mounteds 400 instead of 2000:"