LOST OVERSEAS MEN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 1, 26 September 1919, Page 7

LOST OVERSEAS MEN

7000 WANDERERS IN ENGLAND. The records offices in London of the various overseas forces are making tlieir last grand tally and trying to tracteven- man who has appeared on their books. Up to the present some 7080, about 1 ner cent, of the total, cannot be accounted for.

Not all these men are considered to be definitely lost. iSome liavo gone on furlough and have .accepted work with*, out the formality of communicating with the authorities. Others have married and settled down with their "in-laws" in nreference to returning to camp and tellimr the colonel. Others, again, are the restless irresponsible:;, who have neglected to apply for an authorised discharge in England, although they might have, had it with a little patience'. Many of these, it is thought, will trickle back.

_ The South Africans linve but twenty, fiv) absentees, every other man of tlio 26.C0D who came over being accounted for. The New Zealnmlers are 300 short, but thev expect to see this figure reduced;

Most of the "missing" Australians'and Canadians are wondering about without authority, and it will take a long time for the military police to round them uc and shepherd them into concentration cam OS.

■ Some of th.j Dominion Governments are publishing advertisements warning these men to return by n certain date, unless thev wish to forgo gratuity and a froo passage home.- ,