FORCES PROMISED.
COMMITMENTS AND MEN SENT. The exact position in regard to our Expeditionary Force commitments and the number orf men actually sent is not generally known, and in the House of Representatives Mr H. J. Okey has moved: — “That there he laid before this House a return showing the promise made to the Horae authorities in connection with providing men for the present war, the return to show (1) What number of battalions were promised; (2) what reinforcements were promised to keep op the strength of those battalions; (3) what has been the wastage to 31st March, 1917, by deaths, wounded no’t fit for further sendee, and any other way making them unfit for service; (4) the number of surplus men that has been sent for reinforcement purposes now formed into a further brigade; (5) whether these men should not be used for the purpose they were sent —viz.,-mak-ing up the wastage; and (6) the total number of fit men in the Old Country on the 31st March, 1917.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1732, 30 June 1917, Page 3
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170FORCES PROMISED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1732, 30 June 1917, Page 3
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