AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24525, 6 February 1941, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

' ANOTHER LIST ISSUED TOTAL OVER SIX HUNDRED ■ ’. MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. The latest list of A.I.F. battle casualties released by Army Headquarters brings the total to 623, of whom 135 were killed, 5 missing and 483 wounded. The list includes a number Of casualties at Tobnik,’and aPleast one from the action at Derna. ... _ Artny Headquarters stated that the parkin casualties. of about 500 would be increased by casualties in isolated mopping up and subsequent- actions in which the A.I.F. was .engaged. '-' v ' ■< v

AUSTRALIANS IN PALESTINE ADDRESSED BY PRIME MINISTER GAZAi Feb. 4.(Reeeivcd Feb. 5 at 7-p.m.) Tlie Australian Prime Minister; Mr R. G. Menzies, addressing many thousands of members of the A.1.F., said: “We at.home,will work to our utmost limit equipping and sustaining you. Australia will be behind you through good and bad. In munitions alone Australla last year produced 10 times the quantity St the previous year This /ear we will Mncrease it 30 times, there can be no limit to our effort.” •• Mr Menzies toured the. whole of the Australian area and addressed two big parades.' He warned the men against paying much attention’ to stories of industrial trouble at home.- “ The folly jf a few is not the folly of the nation.” Sd said. '[