SOLDIER SUICIDES.
DAMK Humour continues to enhance her reputation as a lying jade. The latest story being circulated —presumably by those who are no friends of the Military Service Act—is that there have been numerous suicides among the ballot men in Trentham and Feathers ton Camps, it being alleged, according to one statement, that there have been as many suicides at Trentham as six in one week. To bolster up this statement, it has also been asserted that the authorities dare not admit the truth. On the matter being referred to Sir dames Allen (Minister of Defence), he replied;— “There is no real foundation for such rumours. There have only been six suicides in all at the camps since .January, 11)1(5 —six out of over 30,000 men. That shows there is nothing in the rumours.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1686, 15 March 1917, Page 2
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135SOLDIER SUICIDES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1686, 15 March 1917, Page 2
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