SECOND EDITION
THE NEW ZEAIANOERS
(Australian And N-Z. Cable AMOciatioa.) (Rec. Sopt.. 2G, 2.40 p.m.) LONDON, Sopt. 24. Mr Gibbs, continuing Ms narrative of the Now Zealanders, states: — The Englishmen met the advancing Germans in the open with t<he bayonet in. the old-fashioned way. The' New Zealanders watched the fight with enthusiasm until they saw the German, ranks (broken and the remnant flying. It was: a great struggle, but not so long and bloody as the fight the New Zealanders themselves encountered on the 20th September. The Germans struck the New Zealanders at the joining point with the Britishers -west of Flers. The Canterbury men at the joint were twice beaten back and twice regained the ground. Throughout the night until dawn on the 21st there was violent bom'b and bayonet fighting. It did not matter. The British were on one side and the Germans on another. It was a chaotic struggle between isolated bodies of men fighting on shell .craters and bits of trench, single figures, fighting duels or groups and not joining to form lines, which surged backwards and for* wards.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1916, Page 1
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183SECOND EDITION Nelson Evening Mail, 25 September 1916, Page 1
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