GENERAL KIPPENBERGER

Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 3

GENERAL KIPPENBERGER

REACHES LONDON FOR FINAL TREATMENT (Official News Service.) LONDON, May (i. One of the highest-esteemed figures in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and a man who has been in the thick of almost every action fought by the Second Division, has arrived here by hospital ship from the Mediterranean. He is Major-general H. K. Kippenberger, who led the New Zenlanders into the fierce fighting at Cansino, where he was seriously wounded. When Major-general Kippenberger'* hospital car was shunted into one of London's railway stations, he was given a surprise welcome by a small gathering of New Zealand Government and military leaders. As soon as the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, heard of Major-general Kippenberger's expected arrival he postponed another engagement and went to the station with Mrs Fraser, and the High Commissioner, Mr W. J. Jordan, Lieutenant-general Put•tick, and Brigadiers Park and Hargest, and other service and Government officials, were also in the party. General Kippenberger looked well, and said he had had a comfortable journey from the Middle East. He lias come here to receive final treatment in one of the finest military hospitals in the country.