WAR’S RAVAGES

Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 12

WAR’S RAVAGES

SHELL-SHOCKED SOLDIER IN TROUBLE MISSIONER’S PLEA. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 18. “ 1 have spoken to an officer who was besides Lowndes at Bullecourt in 1917, and he tells me that all the young men who were in that bombardment never fully recovered,” said the Rev. Jasper Calder, who was called to give evidence for Leonard Hilton Lowndes at the Police Court. Lowndes was charged with trespassing on his wife’s house while separated and with boarding trams without money. Mr Calder said defendant enlisted at 16]- ymars of- ago, and six months later went through Bullecourt. He had since suffered from acute shellshock. He was all right except when the bouts came on periodically. When he took liquor he went nearly insane. Mr Calder also told how defendant had more than once telephoned at midnight, and while weeping; had said he could feel himself slipping, and was afraid ho might do himself some injury. After consultation the ffiagistrato adjourned the case for three months to allow defendant to return to a relief camp.