The Dardanelles.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 293, 20 May 1915, Page 5

The Dardanelles.

WOUNDED AT MALTA. AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION. Received May 10, 11.-15 p.m. Malta, May 10. Unprecedented enthusiasm marked the arrival of the Australian and New 7 Zealand wounded. 'the majority are slightly wounded and responded vigorously. NO NEWS WITHHELD. STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNOR. Auckland, Last Night. "I notice that there has been a tendency to think that, the Imperial Government is keeping back something in connection with the casualty lists from the Dardanelles," remarked Ilia Excellency the Governor at the annual meeting'of the St. John Ambulance Association to-night. ''l want to dispel that idea. I am almost in daily communication with the 'lmperial authorities, and so far as they know the position at the Dardanelles they have given it to me immediately. Whether there is anything more to come neither they nor 1 can say, but 1 do want to dispel the idea that everything is not being done to gi\o you tlie true facts of the case. Everything that has come through you have had, and i only trust there is in had news to come. 1 want to make it clear that everything the Imperial Government, the New Zealand Government, and I myself can do to give you news has been done."

A SUBMARINE LOST. TART OF CRFW PRISON|:|'S. Leeched May 111. 7.111 p.m London, May i!>. 'the Admiralty presumes the hiss of the \V:>. Is is'understood thro;' oificers and seventeen men "Were taken prisoners. (The AF'2 is an Australian submarine, and it wa.s recently reported that she was lost in the Sea. of Marmora.)