CASUALTY LIST.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14407, 18 May 1917, Page 6

CASUALTY LIST.

NEW ZEALAND FORCES. The Jjase Records has issued the fo* lowing list oi' casualties in the New Zeac land Eipedifcioiiai; Kutce:— DIEQ OF SICKNESS. I^--ano-Covpo.vrtl L. F. Becelvy;' PRISONER OF WAR. "(At Wahn, Germany.) j Private U. K. CJoies. ; . ;AOMITT£Q TO HOSPITAL. . «f. -Biggins. ■ . "^ MIUTAfSY SERV'JGE ACT, I POSITION OF GO-iSLOW AilNEiiS. Pkess Association.j Welimgicn, ?,:lay 17. , bii' JaiiiL-s jiiic-u oLtiLos tiiat-Liie appeals of go-slow miners called up in the ballots iutvv iiivn uisaliowett by the Military Service Boards. Somo of the ;rnen Jiave been medically examined, hilt ho had not yet received a report. Cabinet !>ad ?jr>t jet- deeidcyl what would be duii.j iv^arding those medically fit, bub the Government was anxious to keep the coal industry going. it consistently refused to liberate the men imprisoned on the sedition charges. It is understood that in the case of ' .go-slow miners called-\ip for military service-^ it is uot merely a question o£ allowing tho Law to take its course, but that tlio Defence Minister has power to tell them they must go to work.