UNDERGROUND WARFARE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14339, 2 July 1917, Page 7

UNDERGROUND WARFARE.

LONISQX April 19. The following is from to-day's Man- 1 Chester Guardian : "Ncav Zealand was not there when Vimy Ridge was taken, but the news of the Arras battle will nevertheless be received with peculiar pleasure by New Zealanders, especially by tli« coalmining districts. -It was m 1915 that a detachment of navvies and coalminers from New ' Zealand came home and went almost at once to France. From time, to time sines then A they have been coming over to. England on «hoi!t leave— <huge, brawny men." ' very well -pleased with , themselves", L and -,'.* anxious : to make : the most! of an uproarous time above - grouijd. - Arras was always the oentre of their' talk, font '. Arras -underground, ■< for they lived there lik© molfes, ceaselessly tiinneliing to--wards the enemy's lines, enjoying theniselves Avhen they cut through clean chalk, and listening always for the sound- of the enemy's picks at distant work. They distinguished themselves • greatly before they finished their miles of tunnel. .There was al-waye* the keenest^ competition between the ■'■ different' regiments, and- it was a proud day for; New Zealand when the .Scottish i^iment holding the record for the liritish Army, coming to compare the month's ? work, found that New', Zealand had beaten it by: a hundred yards:" I'