REINFORCEMENTS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7916, 9 August 1917, Page 3

REINFORCEMENTS.

MOTION TO BE MADE. ..jV BODY MEN to come back. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Last night. ,v House on Tuesday night Sir ' Allen made a further statement 'mine the percentage of reinvents sent to the front. He re- ", he W as not able to give more bu t he felt bound to give the Nation he proposed in conse®of a general misconception on J* nt of numbers. Of the main we re required to reinforce . The units we were not called to reinforce totalled 6314. This ia the new brigade formed at aest of the Imperial authorities, percentages except in one inJhad not been fixed by the New j Government, but by the War prior to the outbreak of war, f * as follows: Ten per cent, to the Main Body, twenty per nX w eeks later, five per cent. |j r thereafter. In November, two months after war broke out, rreeu lt of experience, the War that the reinforcements of jihtary and mounted rifles be to twenty-five per cent. D* But in December we were to reduce them to —mounted ten per cent.; infantry, fifteen -,t. In view of casualties to the led rifles who were fighting as gv, the New Zealand Governin' Jane, 1915, offered to increase jjjforrements from ten to fifteen (ent. and to continue the ined percentage bo long as the led rifles were used as infantry, no one in the Dominion |e*ril at that arrangement. In ■bcr, 1915, the Government asktk reinforcements were required uirreased. In 1916, in conse--0f a request from General pod in October, 1915, the remits of the mounted rifles were jiind the infantry increased to from February, 1916. p reinforcements were being g’tbe rate of fifteen per cent, jjr, and this rate prevailed till when a telegram was rejuking the Government to re*o 12 per cent. This reduction jbe adhered to until fresh in--13005 came. It was not possible fct the number of men called present because there are shortjg the camps, which have to be m HOUGH TO BE GRANTED. Ht hid been a discussion on the jo of bringing back some part i Main Body, but this had not possible in the past. Now it was hk, and the Government agreed Bfback on furlough the whole (Main Body now in Egypt, the lion, of course, replacing them, it, however, be remembered that is were back on furlough, and pd there would be no attempt on Bt of people to induce them to lit the expiration of six weeks months. It was not possible to krk all the men in France, but iavour would be made to bring ffty per cent, of them. In all bility application will be asked rb those anxious to return and form of preference arranged, klv married men would be ht back first.