THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
GENERAL GODLEY'S REPORT. NEW ZEALANDERS DOING WELL. Wellington, Wednesday. The Minister of Defence has received letters from General Godley in which he states he thinks the New Zealanders are. doing splendidly. They are doing a tremendous lot of hard training and would be well fit to go to war by the end of February. The discipline was good. Eight men had been tried by court martial; 121 were undergoing detention for offences, chiefly being absent without leave, and cases of insubordination usually due to drink. , The food supplies wore good the issue being slightly in excess of scale,v'but he deemed it advisable to treat the men very liberally in view of the hard training they were under-
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 748, 24 February 1915, Page 5
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121THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 748, 24 February 1915, Page 5
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