NEW ZEALANDERS PARTICIPATE IN NEW BATTLE.
jpgfc ——— I HONOURED PLACE IN LINE WITH AUSTRALIANS. II I". HIGH PRAISE FROM SIR DOUGLAS HAiG FOR WORK. 1| United Service. (Beceivod ,5 p. m .) LONDON. Oct. 18. IP The Australian correspondent, Mr. Keith Murdoch, states that the Ife- Australians and New Zealanders have had an honoured place in the ~0% latest attack. . . , tlf'■■ The correspondent of the United Press says that the ram reduced ft'- the battlefield to a perfect quagmire, but the British and I Anzacs navigated the mud seas and mud mountains like miracle men. fe He talked to Sir Douglas Haig yesterday. The British leader was I 1 full of admiration for the men, and said that the entire history of Flanders shows that mud is always the soldiers' worst enemy. This is '-' ! true to a greater extent now than ever, because the natural drainage K?is stopped- Nevertheless the British troops from all parts of the I ,' lEmpire, and also the French, were undaunted by either mud or Getr • mans. The Field-Marshal concluded that they were all simply splendid.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16670, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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