BRAVE NEW ZEALANDERS
PRECARIOUS POSITION OCCUPIED I Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Sopt. 25. 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept, 24. Mr Gibbs writes :—ln view of the hazardous position of the New Zealand - ers they were ordered to fall back to a line crolng straight westward from the top of Flers village, which they helped to hold on the night of the 15th and 16th and from thenceforward. The enemy repeated the counter attack. Sometimes these were feeble and their strength shattered quickly, but they grew in intensity as the "days passed, and itwas seen that the New Zealanders were in a precarious position owin- gto the weakness of the west flank. Here Germans held out still, the craters enabling supports to drive in a wedge between the Now Zealanders and the English troops north of High Wood. A brigade of Germans attempted this. They advanced in six or seven- waves upon the English soldiers, whom they outnumbered by two to one.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1916, Page 6
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