RETURNING AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 81, 7 April 1902, Page 5

RETURNING AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS.

(Received 9.20 a.m.)

LONDON, April 6.

The transport Custodian has left $Tatal for Albany, W.A., conveying 23 officers and 460 men of the Fifth [Victorian Mounted Rifles.

AN AUSTRALIAN TROOPER'S NARRATIVE,

SOME TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES,

Trooper William Marrow, of. Adelaide, who returned to South Australia from the war lately, recounts some "terrible experiences which he fays he had in South Africa. He belonged to. Kitchener's Fighting Scouts. One day, he states, a small party, w han out scouting, were cut off by 500 Boers, under Commandant Moritz. Marrow and four others were captured. They were stripped, and an the cold weather kept naked for eight days. They were fed on nothing but raw carrots the whole of [the time. Then the Boers let them go, still naked, and when 500 yards away- fired on them, but without reflect. ."'■■*" Later on. Marrow, with a small party, was again captured by Moritz. The Boer commandant asked Marrow for particulars as to the disposition of the British force in the neighbourhood,' and when the Adelaidean refused to speak,'he was tied to the wheel of a van, and sjamboked until the blood ran from his back. He was then Temoved to the hospital

Though his back has not recovered from the flails of the sjambok, Marrow is volunteering to go out with the Commonwealth Contingent.