PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15914, 11 May 1915, Page 9

PERSONAL ITEMS .

Question of Prisoners. After a lengthy review of the operations in Galicia, General von Bernhardi says:— the close of the year there were in our prison camps 3575 officers and 306,294 men of the Russian armies, apart from the many prisoners who were still being transported. The number of prisoners, by the way. grows from day to day. In addition to the above numbers, more than a thousand cannon and approximately a thousand machine-guns, 12 flags, uncounted waggonloads of ammunition and other army vehicles. This represents an entire army that has given up its arms. The prisoners of war in Austria, without the Servians, °U may be estimated at 150,000 men. The total loss of the Russians, however 10-div is probably not put too high at "ffiffi trophies are to be recorded in the west. A? the close of the-ear here wero in our prison camps: Of the Irene M» officers; 215,905 men; *&%£ officers 36,852 men; English, 492 Officers, IB 824 men In the western campaign SofcaS and several hundred machmecuns were captured. About 28,000 BogEon and Belgians have been disarmed in Holland. The total loss of the French, therefore, will probably not be much less than 7 million ;%hat of the English may be safely estimated at 100,000 men 46 opposed to these figures, the total number of German prisoners of war in the west and the cast will probably at most amount to 100,000. This gives a measure as to the successes on both Bides and at least a certain measure for the probable developments of the future.. t

• .*. Ma. John Townley has been re-elected chairman of the Gisbome Harbour Board. Mr. T. Copeland Savage, F.R.C.S. (England), one of Auckland's leading surgeons, will leave New Zealand shortly for service at the front.

Mr. H. B. Speight, solicitor, of Auckland, whose name was omitted from the telegraphed list of University degrees published recently, has been notified that he lias passed in all subjects for the LL.R. degree. "

Mr. Henry Budge Dunnet, a wall-known Auckland resident, died at his residence, Epsom Avenue, Epsom, yesterday, after a long and painful illness. Deceased, who was in his 58tb year, was a son of the late Mr. George Bonnet.

Mr. Mark Cohen, editor of the Punrdin Star, completed 50 year*' work as a journalist yesterday. He was met by a large and representative gathering of Dunedin citizens yesterday afternoon (says a Press Association telegram), and was presented with a substantial cheque. The Mayor, Mr. J. J. Clark. Mr. 0. Fenwick, and others paid tributes to the valuable services rendered by the recipient. ' Mr. and Mrs. Cohen will lea. - almost immediately on a trip to Amivica.