AUSTRALIA'S CASUALTIES.
EXAGGERATION DENTED, j REPORTS ON PRISONERS. • (Received 9.15 a.m.) SIELBOUKN'E, this day. ; - In the Senate Mr. G. F. Pearce (Defence Minister) announced that arrangements had been made for the United States Ambassador at Constantinople to supply information regarding prisoners of war in Turkey. Mr. Pearce emphatically contradicted the statement that the 'casualties amounted to ten thousand a month. Our men had been fighting over a month, he stated, and the casualties had not reached ten thousand. Many reported wounded had already iwen sent back to the firing line.
The hospital ship Kyarra had left Suez with eleven officers and twenty-nine men en routet for Australia.
Colonel Legge'a appointment to the command of the Australians has been gazetted, and he has been given the rank of .Brigadier-General.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 146, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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