AMERICAN STORY
OF THE NEW ZEAL4NDERS' FIGHT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. Mr C. M. Brooke, a chemist wellknown in Christchurch, and now of New York, send 3 the following paragraph regarding the campaign on Galli poll Peninsula j cabled tea New York paper by the special correspondent of the paper: "Our men never hesitated. The New Zealanders hurlec themselves forward in a solid phalanx passing through the 88th Brigade Many gallant men of these regiments refusing to yield am; rights of wa joined the ranks of the New Zea landers, and ruehed forward at a ma charge. The linejentered one Turkis trench with a rush and bayonetted a' before them. Then thev pushed o; shooting, stabbing and falling amid terrible fusillade, but not a soi turned back. No sooner had one lir. charged thai: another pressed on. "Then the Third Australians at vanced over open ground, with litt! cover, only to be met by a tornado ( bullets They were enfiaded by m chine guns, whose fire our artille tried vainly to keep down." Mr Brooke adds: "The little cole of Australians and New Zealande here are very proud of their boys."
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Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13209, 26 June 1915, Page 6
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