THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 3 November 1917, Page 6

THE NEW ZEALAND DIVISION.

LETTER FROM GENERAL CODLEY. ■..Following arc Extracts from a letter from Genera! Sir A. J. Godloy to Bn>.-General Sir Alfred Robin, datedAAugust 26,t t 26, 1917: You need not bo in the. least anxious about iho 4th Brigade. We all thoroughly realise that if "thorn is the slightest shortage of reinforcements that it will bo at once broken up and utilised to keep up the Division proper. Hut I hope it may be possible u> keep till four going, and as long as we can we shall do so, as it is a great convenience to have an extra brigade, which can be out of the line resting and acting as a relief brigade for the other three. And it is so much bolter for tbo odicers and men to be in a proper organisation, too, instead of simply at the Reserve Group at. Sling or the depot til Ktaples. At ,ihe present time the Division is just going out of the line for a bit of rest and training, and 1 am glad to say 1 am going out also, and it will be for the first time since the beginning of the war that X will be able to get a little, rest out of the front line, for which 1 shall not be sorry. 1 propose to let Russell have the 4th Brigade, temporarily as one of the, three of the Division, and keep tho Rdlo Brigade in rest and ready to relieve one of the others if required. 'I he strain on the Brigadier is very great at the from, as von will be able to ■ realise from your war experience. He has all the responsibilities of higher command, anti, fit ihe same time the physical work and fatigue of having to be continually in the trenches, and between the two 1 think that a Brigadier has the hardest lime of anybody, and is more likely to break down than anybody else. The Division look Ist, BassoAillo in

great style, and in a smaller way it was just as good as the taking of Messines. You are indeed having difficulties about the transports and reinforcements, but, 1 think are doing us splendidly, and i have nothing but admiration and appreciation for the way in which you have, helped us.