NEW ZEALANDERS ASSIST TO ATTACK PASSCHEHDAELE
H MEN LABOUB Df HEAVY BUD AGAINST UNCUT WIBE. N.Z. War Correspondent's Message, Oct. 12. 11?;-./ The New Zealand Division, with other units, took part in the >;';: renewed attack 'on Passchendaele Ridge at dawn. After a day of %?.'*• sunshine the weather again changed in the night, and the attack started '■,"- , under difficulties in ram and > deep, sticky mud. Under the circumV.' stances progress was necessarily slow, especially as the position ffimji attacked was strongly defended with machine-gunners in " pill-boxes" : '" " behind uncut wire. The stretcher-bearers never worked more heroicP - ally than they did to-day, their difficulties being increased owing to If mud and the long distances over which the wounded had to be ]; < . - ■■' carried.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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119NEW ZEALANDERS ASSIST TO ATTACK PASSCHEHDAELE New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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