SOUTH AFRICA AND TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1915, Page 4

SOUTH AFRICA AND TO-DAY.

DOMINION LOSSES COMPARED. (By Wire—Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Nifjht. A return prepared by the defence authorities shows the number of men who lost their lives while serving with the New Zealand forces during the South African war. The figures seemed bi'» enough 13 to 14 years ago, when the people of this country were scanning newspapers with anxious eyes to see what toll of life was being exacted from the lads who had gone to the front, but they are reduced to comparative insignificance by the casualty lists that arc coming from the Dardanelles now. New Zealand sent (1500 men in all to South Africa, and 2,12 lost their lives, the total being made up as follows:—Killed in action SS; died, of wounds 10; accidentally killed 25; died of disease 130. The number of those accidentally killed was swelled by the loss of 15 or 16 members of the Eighth Contingent as the result of a railway accident. The total number of men who fell in action or died of wounds was no more than 08, and that loss was spread over a period of over two years. The dominion has lost as many men in the Dardanelles in two davs.