THE CASUALTY LISTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3991, 26 July 1915, Page 7

THE CASUALTY LISTS.

STATEMENT BY GENERAL GODLEY. (By Telegraph—Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 25. The following reference to the difficulty in; collecting casualties at the front is made by General Godley, officer commanding tlio New Zealand Forces, in a letter received by the Minister for Defence, Hon. Jas. A Lien: “I am afraid there will bo great trouble in New’ Zealand at the. delay an receiving casualty lists, but it is absolutely impossible to get them from the battalions and the regiments. They cannot find them out themselves Vfory often in the thick scrub and maze of trenches in which we are fighting and when they do they arc aH so dog tired that it is impossible to get any returns o r any clerical work done. “Every officer, non-commissioned officer, and man who is not fighting is digging for dear life and the wounded in the first instance and after some of the other engagements have poured down so fast to the beach arid have been evacuated so well and so quickly that they have been gone‘before there is any chance of getting a tally of them, i hope that you will explain this to all the people and make them realise that it is not through any carelessness or idleness that the returns are not sent at once.” NEW ZEALANDERS’ GALLANTRY. General Godley, in a letter to the Minister for Defence, states: “I have recommended two New Zealand Engineers —Lance-Corporal Fear (wo think his name will have to be changed) and. Private Hodges—for most conspicuous gallantry in voluntecjrmg and going out at night in the face of a very heavy fire and blowing up with gun cotton a blockhouse which the Turks had built close to our trenches and from which we were getting much annoyance.”