COMMONWEALTH

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144783, 13 September 1915, Page 7

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i THE TOTAL CASUALTIES. SYDNEY, Sept. 12. Yesterday’s casualty list brings the totals to: Killed, 260 officers and 3629 men; wounded, 563 officers and 12,870 men; missing, 41 officers and 1231 men. AUSTRALIA’S HEAVY TOLL. SYDNEY, Sept. 11. Killed in action: 130 men, including Borgt. J. Barden. Died of wounds; One officer and 24 men. Died of illness: One officer and four men. 'Wound-ed:-Five officers and 470 men, including Privates A. W. Reid (in hospital at Alexandria), J. H. Coulson, 0. E. Duka (both the third occasion), G. H. Logan, J. Stewart (both second occasion), Serfoant A. W. Perry, Lance-Corporal B. . Ellis, Gunners J. G. Mackinnon and T. E. L. Moore, and Private G. Finnerly. Ill: One officer and 58 men. Missing ; 165 men. Private E. Rollins, previously reported wounded, has beep sent to hospital at Heliopolis. UNIVERSAL SERVICE. MR. HOLMAN FAVOURS SCHEME. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept, 13. Mr. Holman, in a statement on the Universal Service League movement, said that though a number of Ministers had joined the movement, they had joined as individuals without consultation. The movement did not mean that the Australian tail would wag the Empire dog; it did not'mean a levy of the whole population, nor even universal drilling. What it • does mean is the liability to be called on for service, military or civilian. When every allowance was made it was evident that the voluntary system had not brought forth anything like the results achieved in England. If they were to have the full striking force of Australia manifested it must be by a more rapid method. It must be realised that'they had reached the stage where everything must bo subordinated to the necessity of placing Australia’s full power in the field.

PREFERENCE TO RETURNED SOLDIERS. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a.m.) BRISBANE, Sept. 13. Tho Government has announced a policy of preference to returned soldiers, also a general system of preference to unionists. ANTI-RECRUITING LITERATURE. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 13. A man has been fined £IOO for distributing literature detrimental to recruiting.

ESCAPE OP GERMAN PRISONER. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a m.) MELBOURNE. Sept. 13. While being transported from Adelaide to the concentration camp at Liverpool a German prisoner-of-war escaped. DENTISTS FOR THE TROOPS. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. In future dentists who work for the Defence Department will receive military rank and pay in accordance. A FIND OP WOLFRAM. (Received Sept. 13, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 13. The Inspector of Mines in the Northern Territory announces a payable discovery of wolfram at Hatche’s Creek, Perth; ,