PRISONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY
STATEMENT IN FEDERAL SENATE. Melbourne, June 21. In the Senate, Senator Pearce (Minister of Defence) announced that arrangements had been made for the United States Ambassador at Constantinople) to supply information regarding prisoners of war in Turkey. Mr. Pearce emphatically contradicted the statement that tho casualties amounted to 10,000 monthly. Our men had been fighting over a mont'h and the casualties had not reached 10,000. Many who had been reported wounded were already back in tho firing line. The hospital ship Kyarra had left Suez with 11 officers and 29 men, en ruuto to Australia.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2494, 22 June 1915, Page 6
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100PRISONERS OF WAR IN TURKEY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2494, 22 June 1915, Page 6
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