DOMINION CASUALTIES.
TOTAL OF 5000 SINCE SPRING CAMPAIGN BEGAN. Speaking at Dunedin on the departure of the Forty-seventh Reinforcements, Sir James “Allen, Minister for Defence, said the casualties of .the New Zealand . Expeditionary Force totalled 5000 since fclio opening of the sirring campaign. The war, continued' . Sir James, was not yet finished, though lie hoped they were seeing the beginning of the end. The men before him had to go—to go into training at any rato—with a view to keeping up the pressure necessary to the speedy termination of the war. We had the man-, power at the front to-day in our hands; we had ascendancy on the soa, under the sea and in the air; and we had only to keep up the pressure for a few months longer to liave ascendancy oven Germany and to put her where she ought to he. Reinforcements were necessary to keep up the strength of the New Zealand arms. When the spring offensive began it was anticipated that heavy casualties woiild "be sustained, hub fortunately this had not been borne out. The accumulation of reinforcements. therefore, had enabled the drafts to be reduced. i i i
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 5001, 16 October 1918, Page 2
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