SECOND DRAFT LEAVES JAPAN
LAST OF MEN SENT FROM ITALY (N.Z. Official Correspondent with J Force) KURE, Aug. 24. The second returning draft —the last 1900 of New Zealand’s 135,000 active service troops to return home —left Japan’ early this morning on board the Chitral, which is expected to arrive in Wellington about September 9. The troops left the three main New Zealand centres in special troop trains and, after travelling most of the night, arrived in Kure early yesterday morning. Embarkation was carried out smoothly and before noon all officers and men, hospital patients and nursing sisters and voluntary aids were settled in their quarters. There was general satisfaction with the accommodation which was far from overcrowded. The first day’s meals were first class. As the troops lined the rails for their last sight of Japan they looked even more cheerful than their replacements had been when they arrived last week. The returning draft is made up of men who left New Zealand with the 14th and 15th Reinforcements and came from Italy to Japan in February.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 270, 27 August 1946, Page 3
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