BATTLEFIELD COMPARATIVELY QUIET.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14540, 18 October 1917, Page 5

BATTLEFIELD COMPARATIVELY QUIET.

HUN LICKING HIS WOUNDS.

NEW ZEALANDERS' GALLANTRY

AT BELLEVUE

BRAVE NURSES.

(United Service.)

(Received Oct. 17, 5.5 p.m.)

tomtom, Oct. 16

Mr Murdoch states tiiat -since Friday comparative quiet has reigned in the battlefield. The rifle-fire is gradually diminishing as the new' positions are made secure. The Hun is licking his wounds, and;is not attempting to counter-attack. The weather is bright and drying. I Referring to the New Zealanders' at-: tack at Bellevue Spur, •Mr Murdoch says they were held up despite most gallant efforts by the men and heroic reconnoitring by the officers, involving the death of three distinguished seniors. Mr Gilmour describe-s the nurses at the Anzacs' advanced posts in the recent fighting regaining the lines. As the result of their aid and daring work in recovering wounded, the Germans got very few Australian prisoners, and practically no New Zealanders.