THE BAPAUME REGION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1917, Page 9

THE BAPAUME REGION.

A PICTURE OF DESOLATION. AssocinHon. WELLINGTON, June 26. "I have received excellent reports of the work of Brigadier-General Chaytor and the New Zealand mounted brigade in Egypt, from General ," says General Godley in a Teller to the Minister of Defence. "I have just come back from Ihe Sommc, where ! went lo see Bapaume and Ihe country beyond it and lo inspect the New Zealand stationary hospital, which I had never yet been able to visit. The latter has extended lately into three houses, one of which is an officers' hospital. It seems to me to be run extremely well and the officers, some of whom I know, seemed to be comfortable and expressed satisfaction with their treatment. It is most interesting to see the country between Albert and Bapaume. You cannot imagine what a picture of the abomination of desolalion il is—nothing as far as the eve can reach hat a waste of shell craters, one touching the other, and the whole country brown and treeless, with no habitation in sight. One can just make out from what is left of brick and timbers where the villages of Pozieres and Lc Sa'rs once slood, and that is all."