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New Zealand

SAMOAN FORCE. A DISCLAIMER. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association, Wellington, Last Night. The member,of the Samoan'force who was mentioned in the telegram yesterday from Auckland as receiving 90 days' imprisonment for theft and drunkenness was not Private Morton, but ex-Sergeant Morton Rogers, of the Army ' Service Corps.

THE SAMOAN EXPEDITION. STATEMENT BY MR. FISHER: SYDNEY .SDN'S MESSAGE RIDICULED. Wellington, Last Night. 'ln an interview, the Hon. F. M. B. ■Fisher denied the statement made by the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Sun regarding the New Zealand Government's hurry to get away the expedition to Samoa, and characterises it as ridiculous as it was inaccurate. The force for Samoa, he says, was sent at the date fixed by the Admiralty, and with a convoy fixed by the Admiralty. The 'New Zealand Government at no stage asked for the assistance of any ship or ships of the Australian Navy. The Imperial authorities realised that the Samoan wireless station was the key for information, keeping the German ships forewarned of all that was going on, and the necessity for hastening away the force was to cut off tliis most useful and reliable source of information. The New Zealand transports sailed from New Zealand to Noumea without any Australian convoy at all, and had Admiral Patey been in close contact with the German ships he could have left the New Zealand transports with perfect safety at Noumea, and continued tracking down the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

THE FORCES IN SAMOA, Wellington, December 8. The following message has been received from Samoa, dated December <!: The health of the troops ijs good. The following are in hospital;— Battery: Lieut. Forsyth, dysentery; Gunner T. Wilberfos, septic leg. Auckland Regiment: Lieut. Tolp, abscess; Private H. Davidson, cellulitis; H. Harvey, injury to knee. Railway Engineers: Sergt. M. Matheson, carbuncle; Sapper P. Brockless, dysentery: Sapper E. W. Smyrk, abscess; Sapper S. Verry, dengue; SappeT R. G. Winter, bursitas; Corporal W. Willstead, dengue. Wellington Regiment: Colonel Turner, Bunple fracture of leg; Sergt. R. Cook, head injury; Lance-Corporal S. Foley, ' dysentery. Medical .Corps: Private T. Dean, dengue; Private R. McMillan, jaundice. All are doing well.

WIRELESS PLANT SEIZED. Christchurch, December 8. The poiice yesterday seized a wireless plant 'at Ileatlicote installed twelve months ago, and owned by an employee of the Railway Department.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 9 December 1914, Page 5

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New Zealand Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 9 December 1914, Page 5

New Zealand Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 9 December 1914, Page 5

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