IN THE DOMINION

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144779, 8 September 1915, Page 3

IN THE DOMINION

NOTES FROM EG YPT. FROM COLONEL CHARTERS. PER PRESS | ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Sept. 8. to the Defence Minister, Colonel Charters, commanding at the. • New Zealand base in Egypt, Says that neither the post office nor the casualty office is under his control, but under different officers. The casualties are supplied to Colonel Charters by the Records Office, and the lists cabled are only the ones that are official and reliable. With regard to Major Stuckey and Lieutenant Baddeley, who were wounded on the first day and reported missing, no further information can be obtained. No one has seen them since, and Colonel Charters thinks there can be no doubt that they are dead. He believes a court of inquiry is to be held to determine their cases.; Colonel Charters says they are short of sorters for the post office work, and that two trained men should be sent with each reinforcement. Since April 17 mails have gone forward with regularity, but for about a month, owing to the men being in transports and the difficulty of landing mails on a shellswept beach, they could not bo regularly distributed. Colonel Charters gives details of the system of looking after the wounded, and mentions that he has three motor orderlies doing nothing but going round attending to the wants of the patients. Each man receives a present of a razor, mirror, toothbrush, stationery, tdbacoo and other articles as ho arrives from the front, which are paid for out of the Government funds and money supplied by the units. There is no New Zealand base hospital. Lady Godley’s convalescent home is the only place that takes New Zealanders exclusively. ■ Dealing with the difficulty of obtaining information re the wounded, he says that there is no direct service to Gaba Tepe, and one may have to wait a month for a reply to inquiries. It is no ferry trip, owing to the presence of ’submarines. Colonel Charters concludes by saying that the gratitude of the wounded is wonderful, and the nurses speak in highest terms of the patients.