WORK OF THE DIVISION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16876, 14 June 1918, Page 4

WORK OF THE DIVISION

"THEY DID MAGNIFICENTLY." 1 CORPS TROOPS' GOOD SERVICE. [BY TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] i WELLINGTON", Thursday. "I DO fee] that although the German is | at present rushing his fences' with some : success, he will fall very heavily before he i gets to the last one." was the opinion ex- ' pressed by a British general in a letter, ; dated April 28. received by Sir .Tames , Allen. Referring to the exploits of the • i New Zea-landers, he wrote :—" They in- ' I deed did magnificently in the fighting ' j south of Arras, and their bag of machineI guns was really wonderful." I Sir James Allen also received a letter [ i from General Sir Alexander God'ey, from : which he gave the following extracts for . ! publication :—" Since I last wrote you will ! have heard that the New Zealand Division 1 j went south, and arrived just in time to i help to stem the German advance there. I I heard very good accounts of what they I did- Their first attempt since the landing ' ] on Gallipoli at what was practically open . ; warfare seems to have been on the whole ' ' quite successful- • ! . j "Up here we have had a very strenuous ; time, as you will see from the newspapers. I Anything that we could lay our hands 1 on had to be pressed into the line, among i them being the Second New Zealand | Entrenching Battalion, made up of rein- ; | forcements and the remnants of the Fourth , Brigade. They did excellent service, but, I am glad to say. have now been taken out again and have gone bark to their : i proper role as reinforcements for the Divii sion, i also had to form a company of i all sorts of odds and ends of my Corps 1 ! Headquarters, amonc them being some ' [ men of the Xew Zealand Employment i Company They did some excellent work 'I in filling a breach in the line. Similarly I the New Zealand Cyclists, of my Corps ' mounted troops, were employed and did ■ well. The fighting has been desperate, ] but the men have fought magnificently, and, considering the force in which we were attacked, the Germans have not i made anything like the progress they had hoped for. Reinforcements come up well and quickly, but the difficulty is to get time for reorganisation, and. of course. ' we do still want a tremendous number ' ! more men."