A GLORIOUS PART.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14165, 16 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GLORIOUS PART.

The Right Hon. W. F. Massey as chairman ot the Recruiting Board/telegraphed yesterday as follows •_ I Jhe registrations for the Nineteenth i Reinforcements, which mobilise for \*™*™S this week, show a Dominion ; excess of 98 over normal requirements, lie official figures of tho enlistments for the infantry 'all other arms of the dowf boi n?- f"n) as at date of Ftidaj, the 21st mst., are as follows •— Auckland military district, an excess of I; Wellington military district :in excess of 75; Canterbury" military' district, an excess of 32; "Otago military wstnet, «t shortage of JO; or a total Dominion excess of 98 At the same date 1158 infantry had registered for the Twentieth Reinforcements, which are due to mobilise ior training at the end of August As the normal requirement for infantry for each four-weekly draft is 1818 men the present negistrations for the Twentieth leave a shortage of 658 men to be found in the coming month lhe Anzac troops are now talking a1 glorious part in the stirring deeds of! the present great Western offensive ' and it is not necessary for me to re^ mind- every fit and eligible man in.the Dominion of the urgent call that daily comes from his comrades and fellowcitizens m France to step forward and Si 4. *v gai?S ITI the I"anljs- W^ road tnat the Germans are wondering how great are the English reserves, because they know that the continuance of our offensive will depend on our reserve strength. • Let the military manhood ot this Domnfion, by keeping up a steady flow of reinforcements, demonstrate to the enemy that our reserve iorce is sufficient to continue the off en-! Rive until a definite victory is achieved. | it will be a truly glorious achievement! it we can maintain our flow of recruits! ? X ohintary Gn»'stment, but maintained they must be, whether by the voluntary principle or by bringing into force the compulsory powers contained in the I Military Service Act. 'I

BACK rFJD?^ TJ?£ FRONT. (From <;The tfolonist," July 20.) By the M-ipourika yesterday Private bresley X/ukin and Pay-Sergt.' Jennens reached kelson from the front, both soldiers having come to Duneoin by the ulrmaroa. -

July, 2G. •Sergeant W.-E. Smith, who was seriously wounded at Gallipoli and 'was in hospital in Enp;]and for'several months, returned to Nelson yesterday.