NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3979, 12 July 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES.

YESTERDAY’S LISTS. (PP-1133 ASSOCIATION TE LEG It AM ) WELLINGTON, July 11. Casualty list No. 109 was issued a 5 noon to-day Auckland Battalion. Reported prisoner at Guthane Hospital, Constantinople, wounded in arm, back, and shoulder: Burgess, Thomas Haye» 12/705, private. (William Burgess, Pukekohe). Auckland Mounted Rifles.—Reported wounded : McPherson. John, 13/302 trooper. (Mrs Myrtle McPherson. Heapy Terrace, Hamilton). Private C. Miich'dl, AVelLington Infantry Battalion, who has been reported wounded, was a member of tliw Gisborne contingent which left on October 21. He is a brother of Air P. Mitchell, AVliitaker Street. Air H. A. King, of Fox Street, was advised yesterday that lii.s son, Private Cecil King, was dangerously ill with enteric fever on July 8. Private King was promoted to be sergeant after joining the forces, but subsequently gave up his stripes in order to get into the firing line. RUSSIA’S WAR SUPPLIES. PROVIDED BY JAPAN. ALL FACTORIES AVORXT.VG AT FULL PRESSURE. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received Juiv 12. 1.35 a.rn.) SYDNEY, July 11. The “Herald” correspondent, writing from Tokio on May 7, says it is now definitely known that there are Japanese guns and gunners at ths Russian front. The Russian authorities consulted the Japanese Embassy at Petrograd, with the result that Captain Miyabava and certain artillery officers with their own guns were despatched from Tokio. arriving or tlie Russian front on Anri] 17.

Their weapons were of the latest and most effective make and proved equal to those of the Austro-Germans. Most skilled Japanese officers are instructing the Russians before th« latter are sent to the front. The correspondent adds that tho talk of sending Japanese infantry to Europe lias subsided for the present. Japan is turning out immense quantities of munitions and the arsenals are turning out guns and ammunition. which are boiim hurried to Russia.