NEWS OF CASUALTIES.
"THJ3RE MITST BE "A; LIMIT." Tho impossibility of supplying all details to noxt-of-kin regarding their wounded relatives at the front is emphasised in a letter received by the Hon. J. Allen from General Birdwood: "I can, of course, quite understand and fully, sympathise with the feelings of people at such a distance who^have done all they can in giving their best to fight for the cause, and naturally that the least that can be dome is to keep them informed of their progress," General Birdwood writes. "But with the enormous numbers fighting / there must be some limit to the information sent put unless the' staffs are to be worked to death."' ■ > , ■ "I .give this extract','.' Mr. Allen,explained, "because, as I have said often before, tho staffs at the front ate working to give us everything they, can about siclc and wounded men, but we canVget everything that everybody wants. That is a practical impossibility, and rehu tives must be patient about it."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 3
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165NEWS OF CASUALTIES. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14126, 19 October 1916, Page 3
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