CANADIAN ENLISTMENTS FALLING OFF.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 8 December 1916, Page 7

CANADIAN ENLISTMENTS FALLING OFF.

OTTAWA, Dee. 5. Tlie total enlistments in Canada for tlic last six months are 1300 below the casualties. The November enlistments were the smallest since May, The November enlistments were 5000—the smallest during any month since the war began. NO RETURNS.’ LONDON, Dec. 5. A Board of Trade order limits meals in public places and boarding houses to three courses in the evening and two courses at other meals. Cheese is not reckoned, while meatless and fishlcsj* hors d 'oeuvre, soup and dessert are counted half a course each. A further order is foreshadowed providing for meatless days universally. HEROES OP THE SOMME. HOSPITAL AND PROGRESS REPORT. WELLINGTON. Dec 7. The Defence Department has issued the following hospital and progress report: — The following reported dangerously ill; Driver W. T. Edwards. Following still dangerously ill: Ptes H. A. Billing, F. T. A. B'owell. Following reported seriously ill: Pte C. S. Ellison. Following seriously ill. but improving: Capt. A. L. Gray. Following reported as serious cases: Ptes C. C. Laud, T. Donald, Gnr P. McCullough. Following reported as not serious cases; Capt. P. Jory, Sister Emily Curtis, Sgts R. Cahill, H. E. Freed, R. Kirker. J. V. Neary, Sapper L. G. Keat, Ptes E. F. Allison, N. Brittain, J. L. Campbell, G. R. Collinson, D. A. Craigie, G. M. Day, A. R. Edwardes, L. Elliott, G. Fraser, R. Galbraith, C. C. Horsbrugh, W. A. Hurle, J. Jewitt, W. A. Knowles, J. A. Neil, T. Reynolds, C. D. M. Scott, R. A. Waylie, Rfmen A. E. Enright, R. F. Johnston, J. McCracken, J. McGill.