"SHELLING AND SNIPING"

North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13324, 26 July 1915, Page 2

"SHELLING AND SNIPING"

SC\NTEBBURY, BATTALION" 1 ' ENGAGED ; I *" 1 ** k WELLINGTON,' July 23, JAn lntPrestingHac?eonnt^of-a• * gigemen't in which some of 1 fie New v.ere 'engaged 4 l3 a lettei received by the Minister of J De fenep fiom General fiodln^. N "Last'niglif," the letter reads, "the - . -r Canterbury Battalion unlade v,a '.sortie from one, of our posfa, wliiehiSficlfs out■> in a salient at the head of a milfy rather 111 advancp of .the •rest,-:of ojir . • line. They got, - into the.-.Turkish . trenches, bayonet,edrti 'lofc.ot took.2S, prisoners,.,bnt. when daylight. ■ came the* wererkicked; put iby; a 'neW- ~; v , , l:ind : of, large- bomb, ■: for ••-which/thev were, unprepared.. A'.few-nights, ago-■*. ; ;V at the; same-post, the.Turks 1 came-into our • I ranches, where > thev; left. 3.0; dead and lil'pnsoners before, we kicked'thent out.. : Trench, mortars, shnrpshooting, and the, bayonet. are.?o«r-, wcapo)is<;.oj: warfare/and; )ve live in> a cramped: aj|/l , perpetual atmosphere -of-shelling.vand, . sniping. ; However,- >v« "hope • a ■ push "front-from the . south will soon come,:.which will free us from this dfctcstabje situation " , ' '