OFFICIALLY DEAD.
In connection with the Australian casualties ab the Dardanelles a peculiar complication has arisen. Capt. William Bowman Douglas, of New South Wales, was reported to have died of wounds, but his wife afterwards received a cablegram purporting to come * from him, stating that he was well. Speaking in the House of Representatives Mr. Jensen (Honorary Minister) said that the Defence Department had cabled to Cairo and Alexandria, and had received the reply that Capt. W. B. Douglas had been placed on board the hospital ship, suffering from a gun-shot wound, on 3rd May, and had subsequently died. Mr. Jensen said ho was unable to understand how the cablegram stating that Capt. Douglas was well came to be received. " According to our advices," added Mr. Jensen, "he is dead."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 13
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130OFFICIALLY DEAD. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 13
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