DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS ALLEGED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14139, 15 July 1916, Page 5

DISGRACEFUL CONDITIONS ALLEGED.

NEGLECT OF WOUNDED

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

[Received July 14, 8.25 p.m.)

London, July 13

The Duke of Somerset, speaking in the House of Lords, said the letters of officers in Mesopotamia disclosed a disgraceful state of affairs. He was told that a thousand wounded were sent down in one boat in charge of one officer. Their wounds were not dressed until they arrived at Bombay.