EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
. - A —' CRITICISMS REFUTED. (Br MeeTaph—Press Association.) Ghrlstchurch, January 28. Criticism has been levelled at the Defence Department on account of its call for non-commisioned officers for the sth reinforcements, "with or without previous military experience." It is considered in some quarters .that it has placed many men of the Expeditionary Force in Egypt at ai disadvantage. The Defence authorities point out that the position cannot bo helped. Nobody, not even the Imperial authorities, foresaw that New Zealand would have to send ten reinforcements. . Noncommissioned officers must be found for the reinforcements, and it would be absurd to send them away without any. Men without previous military service would _be taken only when the supply of trained men ran out. -The authorities point ont that tbey will not rank as senior to those already gone.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2371, 29 January 1915, Page 6
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136EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2371, 29 January 1915, Page 6
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