AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1915, Page 5

AUSTRALIA.

CASUALTY LIST. Received Sept. 2, 9 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 2. Sevonty-second list:—Killed in action: One officer and 143 men, including W. H. Leeehc. Died of wounds: Two officers and seventy-five men, including LanceCorporal McGill. Died of illness: Two officers and nine men. Wounded: Four officers and 190 men, including Corporal R. Wynard and Bugler E. Lingley, The latter is in hospital in London. Driver R. W. Dobinson is in hospital at Ghezireh. Eighty men are missing, and one officer. Captain J. K. Miller, previously reported ill, is out of danger, and Private J, Sheehan, previously reported wounded, has returned to duty. All those named above are New Zealanders, RECRUITING FIGURES. Sydney, September 2. The military authorities consider the Melbourne recruiting figures wrong. New South Wales has enlisted at least 48,000 this year, instead of 40,882 altogether, as stated. The authorities, say that, if the truth is known, New South Wales has done more than all the other States together. PATRIOTIC PARLIAMENTARIANS. . Received Sept. 2, 0 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 2. Altogether five members of the Assembly have enlisted. Two, Messrs Braund and Larkin, have been killed, and Colonel Onslow is now at the front. There was a patriotic demonstration in the House to-day, farewelling the other two, Messrs Fern and Chaffey. LATE GKXEKAL BRIDGES. Received September 2, 9.50 p.m. Melbourne, September 2. Crowds to-day paid the last tribute to General Bridges by visiting St... IPnnl's Cathedral, where the body is ;isrlng in state, WORKERS FOR ENGLAND. Sydney, September 2. Fifty engineers will sail for England as munition workers by the Maloja, STEEL FOR SHELL-MAKING. Sydney, September 1. The inspector for the Federal Munitions Committee has passed "125 tons of steel for shell-making, manufactured at the Waratah works. THE WAR LOAN. Melbourne, September 2. Mr. Fisher later announced that the war loan exceedced thirteen millions.