SNIPING THE SNIPER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 827, 4 October 1916, Page 7

SNIPING THE SNIPER.

OTAGO MAN'S FEAT.

SOME NEW ZE\LANDERS ISOLATED. Auttrclian and .V.2. Cable Auoeistion. LONDON, October 3. Reuter's correspondent at Headquarters slates that a party of New Zealanders was isolated on the night of September 21. They were ordered to retire. A Canterbury private remained behind and covered their retreat by loading and firing incessantly, killing numbers of the enemy, and finally escaping. An Ofago sniper, on seeing the battalion severely suffering from shell lire and snipers while diggingin in the open, obtained permission to go ont to deal with the snipers. He crawled from successive craters until he got close to them, when he picked off several, appreciably diminishing the danger. The cable news in this issue accredited to '•The Time;."* has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated Is such news the editorial opinion of "The Times,**