NEW ZEALANDERS WIN PRAISE AT GALLIPOLI.
TURKS UNABLE TO STAND AGAINST THEM. SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE OVER VERY PRECIPITOUS COUNTRY. MESSAGE RECEIVED FROM SIR lAN HAMILTON. Di-xedin. August ig. he Hon. tlas ' Allen. Minister for Defence, has received the <> owing cablegram from Sir lan Hamilton to-night: "Warmest _ SnkS foi jour telegram, which has been communicated to the troops, The corps commander under whom the Xew Zealand troops are serving reports as follows, and I fully endorse all that he says r " ' 1 cannot tell you how magnificently the. whole of the New ealand troops-artillery, mounted rifles, infantry, and Maoris— one m our recent very severe fighting. Trench after trench, and S alter ridge. Were successfully taken by them, with dash which Prevented the Turks making any stand against them, and over country 33 precipitous and difficult as that which we took on landing. - Among our fallen comrades, the whole force deeply deplores be deaths of Colonel Malone and the loss of Colonel Ban'ehop, who had proved themselves first-class soldiers and real leaders in the field.'" "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 7
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173NEW ZEALANDERS WIN PRAISE AT GALLIPOLI. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 7
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