TERRITORIALS AS SOLDIERS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 22 July 1916, Page 5

TERRITORIALS AS SOLDIERS

IN THE NEW OFFENSIVE

KITCHENER’S NEW ARMY

LIKE TEMPERED VETERANS

(Received July 22, 5.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 21

Mr Phillip Gibbs states that in the offensive the Territorials have proved great soldiers, both in attack and resistance. The Queen’s Westminsters, Queen Victoria’s Rifles, the London Rifle Brigade Rangers, and the London Scottish advancing on Goramecourt, reached the German lines and captured a network of trenches with amafzing speed. The enemy then put up a barrage of high explosives, through which no living thing could pass, and the Londoners were caught in a death trap, their escape being cut off. The barrage smashed our communication trenches preventing supports from reaching the men in the captured salient. Their comrades desperately attempted to send ammunition; one party of 60, with hand grenades, set out, and only three returned. The enemy organised a series of counter attacks, and some enemy parties approached the Londoners from a northern position, from whence the enemy enfiladed them.

The London Scottish, on the right, were holding a redoubt building and barricades, when ammunition grew ' scarcer and bombs almost exhausted. The Londoners gathered up German bombs, but the position became uglier. Still the men never lost heart; and an officer rallied six good men and ordered the others to retreat with the wounded, and take their , chance across no man’s land, while he put up the last fight. He stuck to the barricade until all but two were killed, and be was the last to leave. Gradu--1 ally the Londoners withdrew under great shell fire. Many of the wounded remained on the field, suffering great anguish for days. One officer wounded in the leg crawled about the field for twelve daj-g before he was rescued. THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS DECREASED. SINCE WAR COMMENCED. (Received July 22, 9.20 a.m.) The Admiralty has informed the South Wales miners that the coal output for the United Kingdom has fallen by thirty-five million tons since the commencement of fhe Avar, wheras the National and Allied demands have necessitated-twenty million tons more than before the Avar. OVER PERFECT GERMAN ART. REACHED A CLIMAX. (Received July 22, 9.20 a.m.) NEJW YORK, July 21. The German campaign of lies reached its height Avhen it Avas announced to-day, that Berlin officially wirelessed, on June 3rd, that a great revolt, had occurred in the British Admiralty, owing to the Jutland battle, and that all theatres in Britain Avere closed. DECEPTIVE GERMAN EFFORT 1 . ELEMENTS DANGEROUS TO AT .LIES. THE BRITISH WITHSTOOD IT. (Received July 22, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent in Prance Avrites that the German attack on Longueval was shreAvdly conceived, and if successful, Avould endanger the front where the French and British meet. The enemy pretends that only a Brigade Avas engaged, but French experts estimate that there Avere at least six divisions on a 21 mile front. Despite the tremendous odds and exceptional German fury, the British magnificently withstood the attack. -COLOGNE GAZETTE DISGUSTED., WITH NORWAY’S ATTITUDE. WAIL FOR NORWEGIAN SUPPORT (Received 9.20) LONDON, July 2.1, Norway s attitude regarding the blockade disgusts the Cologne Gazette, which says if it avus not so immensely sad they might laugh at the idea. Norwegians, after all the British seatyrants excesses arc still regarding England as the champion of independent small nations. This proves that Geramny when lighting for freedom of ,

tlio seas cannot reckon upon northern nations although blood relations.