A STIRRING STORY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10112, 20 October 1917, Page 5

A STIRRING STORY.

IMPERIAL OFFICERS EULOGISE THE NEW ZEALANDERS. "THEY NEVERSAW SUCH COOL BRAVERY." LONDON, Oct. 18. Mr Gilmour, the Austrian correspon,lf says:-Another line day on Tuesdaj to mutual artillery strafing. The Australians add Now Zeajuden were only asked to hold to renohes V very few The consolidation of our poaiofs enabled our men to remain, <»W; ivelv safe in the front lnivs and dig <*rj Eping places, and when U.e xain ro-com-cosy compared to the cold uncertain teirors rciffinng in the German posMtions. Now IzXls state that the Germans are sufIcring from extreme nervousnoM and out men are proud ivf the way they got til wounded o'ut of tfe battle. .The mud mad this work ,0 difficW that six beards wok allotted to each stretcher A forma t" at Mt. Cook was among the bearers »j>o« courage and endurance saved lives. Considering the losses incurred bj the A eft ZealandonTin the eUv stages when th were under lierco machine gun lire, the woil of removing the wounded was one of great difficulty, requiring an elaborate orgMUba tion. The wounded were still being earned out two days after the battle. The Germans finding their Red /Cross respected, gave tilt New Zealand beaivrs *afe passage also, .u one time 300 stretcher case., were lying out--ide the New Zealand aid post m lull vi< ,f the enemy, but not a shot «»s hied Vet the New Zcalafaders instantly aho . , n ,f the Germans not'tending he ;v"'" ( , who exposed themwlvrs and the Gc\ mans ondeavoured to catdli itho New ZealaV«eri lin the same manner. Att other points olf II"An/ac front, the Germans shot dov" stretcher parties, and oU >' boys inflicted ir, s.tahl punishment. A poyular Otago olhcer was killed after throwing a bomb into one of the biggest "pill boxes,".' and but for the barbed wire, the New Zft danders would 'have given the place short shrift. Other New Zealand troops co-operal ed With Imperial troops on the left, and officers say they never saw such cool- bravery %as when the New Zealanders wer/e advancing'.. Ihey had

to bo sternly commanded) to lie down m the gusts of bullets came their way, [ when the shells killed a senior officer a Milling sergeant from Lvttelton strug--1 for an hour and a-half through the d under constant fire, until he found eutenant to take over the command. The w Zealand Forces to-day are most cheerknowimr that their latest sacrifices arc