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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14483, 15 August 1917, Page 2

11l reply to a question by Mr ,!. Payne, in rite Houso of .lteprer?'enNatives regarding the personnel of General Sir I A Godloy's staff, which" ho compJaln-j or! was constituted practically! of Englishmen. Sir James Allen, Minister for Defence, stated that General Crqdlpy commanded an Array Corps of! the British Army in France." Bines tho! Army Corps is'not provided by Nov.Zealand, there is no reason that tho •staff should consist of New Zealanders. "Moreover," said Sir James Allen, "as I have already stated in the House. General Godley is not paid by New Zealand. There is ""one New Zealand officer attached to his staff to assist him in the work he still does for our troops.''

-An officor homo from the front jvrites:—"The- German can fieht, kit he cannot beat tiie British .soldier i often -hear ray men deliver sapa aphorisms regarding the Boche for the benent of the new men in the drafts One of them was this; "The closer you are to Fritz, the safer you are.' Another: 'Get in quick and bite quick.* Just how very sago these sayings are 1 can show you. As loijg r.s you are- fasenough away from the Bocho he wifi smpe you as hard as he can, or turn his machine-gun on you. Nearer again ho will bomb you, and do it v.-ell Hut whon you get within, striking distance ho will .either surrender or ran. We are killing' them in crowds, antl our meirare getting better every tlav. while the Huns deteriorate." .'■*"■■"■