THE SECOND REINFORCEMENTS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15218, 4 March 1915, Page 8

THE SECOND REINFORCEMENTS.

Corpora] Eric Mosley (a son of Mr M". .Vo?lpv. of Christeni!reh), a member of tho Howitzer Brigade attached to the second reinforcements, writing to his parents under date of January 21st {ono day off Aden), says:—

We left Colombo last Friday and since then have been well out of our course up near Bombay, dodging 6ome armed German merchantmen that are about these waters.

Them have been six deaths with us since leaving Australia, five of them being Australians and only one a New Zealander. We buried the last man yesterday. To-day all tho boats stopped to put doctors on the flagship, where they _ performed an operation this morning.

Wo loft Np.w Zealand with 503 horses and have only lost five, so we have not done so bad. All the other boats have hnd worse luck, one losing as many as fiftv'ont of 270.

I don't think we are going past Egypt just yet, for from what the officers say we will be off the boat in about a week, and I will be glad, not only for my own «okn, but for the horses. They have been on their feet ever since leaving Now Zealand., and have not room in their stalls to lie down or turn round.