NEWS OF CASUALTIES
•THERE MUST BE A LIMIT."-
•The impossibility of supplying all dofcails to next-of-kin regarding their wounded relative at the front is emphasisedl iu a letter received by the Hon. J. Allen from General Bird wood:
"I can, of course, quite understand and fully sympathise with the feelings of people at such a distance who have done all they can in giving their best to fight for the cause, and naturally that the least that can be done is to keep them informed of their progress," General. Birdwood writes. ■ "But with the enormous numbers fighting there must be some limit to the information sent out unless the staffs are to be worked to death."
"I give this extract," Mr. Allen explained, "because, as I have said often before, the staffs at the front are working to give us everything 1 thoy can about sick and wounded men, but we can't get everything that, everybody wants. That is a practical impossibility, and relatives must be -patient' about it."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2905, 18 October 1916, Page 5
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169NEWS OF CASUALTIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2905, 18 October 1916, Page 5
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