MAORI CONTINGENT.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2577, 27 September 1915, Page 6

MAORI CONTINGENT.

f A MISLEADING STORY . Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' . (Rec. September 26, 3.35 p.m.) Fremantle, September 26. The Kh'yber; which has L arrived from London) has three Maori officers as passengers!' Ono of them, Captain Danient, states',.that the, Maori' contingent was cut up in tho attacks of August 6 to 8, and that the survivors are now incorporated with'.other units. 71 MISLEADING CABLECBAM. ' ' MINISTER. OF DEFENCE . •• EXPLAINS. / Tho above message was refeired to the": Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. 'Allen) last night, and he stated that it was Certainly misleading. ' It would bo ; wrong to let the ' impression . get abroad that'the Maoris had been badly cut-lip. They had suffered loss, but no ; more than anybody elso, and the casualty lists' had all been published. iAs'to tho point that they had been incorporated with other units, the fact was that they had been attacncd to the Infantry Brigade,' but : would .still, be kept together as a Maori force. _Ho liadi received a cable, from General Godley, which had already been published, in; which ho said that ho "had attach■sd the Maoris to the Infantry Brigade. Reinforcements for 'the Maoris Jiaxl been asked for, and wore being sent) (and tho Maoris would bo kept as two. foompanies in the Infantry Brigade. ' Bcdncg Flnenzol,*