HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 223, 18 September 1915, Page 5

HEROES OF THE DARDANELLES.

The most notable feature of a casualty list issued by the Defence Department yesterday afternoon was the inclusion of the names of six soldiers who are repoited to be prisoners of war at Constantinople. Two of three men are Aucklandens. DIED OP WOUNDS. FRANKLIN JAMES CONWAY, Aagu-st 31, Canterbury Battalion. PRISONERS OF WAR. / Wellington Battalion. Previously reported missing, hot reported as prisoners of war in Constantinople:— THOMAS GEORfIE ASHMAN. JAMES BUSSELL. REGINALD DAVIE. FRANC!:. JOHN EARLES (Corporal)., THOMAS GAFFNEY. BENJAMIN HREIO. s . GEORGE McANENY (Sergeant). GEORGE FRANCIS MONKLEE ARTHUR PORTER. FRANCIS LEESON SHEPPARD (LanceCorporal). ALBERT JOHN SHOEBRIDGE (Corporal). WILLIAM .ROBERT SURGENOR. Previously reported missing, now unofficially reported prisoners of war .n Constantinople: — JOHN PERCY COULTER. GEORGE GUN'N. Auckland M.R. RONALD OOWL-iXD-John Gowland, Rangiora (father). Aucklard Battalion. Unofficially reported prisoner of war in Constantinople, not previously reported as mis-ing:— ERNEST KEIGHTLEY—A. Keightley. Midhurst. WITH THE AUSTRALIANS. NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. SYDNEY, this day. P. Owens, who was serving with the Australian forces, and was killed, formerly lived in New Zealand. IN AUSTRALIA. SLACK RECRUITING ; EVERY ■MAN WANTED. BIG DROP IN SYDNEY. COLONIALS SLOWER THAN OLD COUNTRY. (Received 9.6 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Mr G. F. Pearce (Federal Defence Minister), In the course of a statement regarding recruiting, emphasised the fact that he wanted all the men he could get, and was not content with fixed quotas from each State. SYDNEY, this day. A further recruiting campaign will be opened on October 9. Yesterday was the worst day on record since the war, only 31 men enlisting at Paddington. The Political Labour League has carried a motion urging the executive to dissociate th? labour movement from the Lniversal Service League. Replying to adverse criticism of the demand for national service, the Premier of Xew South Wales (Mr Holman) points out that during the first year of the war Britain goP 16 per cent of her total male population under the colours, while Australia got less than 4 per cent under the colours. ; . The people of Australia had come forward four times more slowly than the comparatively unwarlike population of the Old Country. This was not because of any less readiness on their part to face danger, but because the whole of the British people were united in a gigantic recruiting campaign, and there were no carpers. THE CASUALTY LISTS. \ OVER 100 KILLED. ' SYDNEY, September 17. * The 79th casualty list contains the following figures:—Killed in action, four officers and 98 men, including Privates F. P. Weir, O. B. Allom and H. Burton, New Zealanders; died of wounds, one officer and 33 men; wounded, 15 officers and 207 men, including Driver C. M. Atkinson and Privates R. Miles and W. M. O'Connor (second occasion) and E. D. Sweenev Xew Zealanders; in hospital at Malta, ill) 19 officers and 118 men, including Private J. McQuillan; in hospital at Alexandria, - Corp_-al C. Hudson; dangerously ill and E missing, 1 officer and 8 men, - FRIENDLY SOCIETY MEMBERS J AT THE FRONT, REINSURING SCHEME. ' 1 MELBOURXE, September 1". In order to meet the provisions of the Friendly Societies Amendment Act, pro- . viding for reinsuring members of societies who have gone from the State, the Government has undertaken to provide a subsidy not exceeding £20,000, which i. estimated to be about one-fourth of the total amount required, while the societies pay about £GO,OOO. An official report estimates that 7,000 members of Victorian societies have already enlisted, an_ that " tbe number is likely to reach 10,000. c 3 THE LITHGOW STRIKE. SYDNEY, this day. The strike at the X.S.W. small arms / | factory is n\t likely to delay the output, as it is confined to the barrel department' which is well ahead of the work. SPORTSMEN FROM PERTH. PERTH, this day. A Sportsmen's Battalion is bein~ organised hete. ° SINKING oFtSFheSPERIAN. HUNS NOT RESPONSIBLE. (Received 11.16 p.m.) I WASHINGTON, September 17. | The Secretary of State (Mr R. ___- •sing) has received Germany's Note deny, ling responsibility for tho'torpedoing of [the Hesperian,