BACK FROM THE WAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 102, 2 May 1917, Page 5

BACK FROM THE WAR.

RETURNED SOLDIERS REACH • . DUNERIN. . '-'•'" ,

DUNEDTN, May 2.

A transport berthed :-! at Port Chalmers this morning, with 57 «il r csier nine of whom.hHy^ r^tyji-nod f-ot dntv. Ti-ooper Janjirvs I.T^wai-d .Mitr . chpll, of Palmei'ston Nortli,' wh'o'. whs suffering from gunshot' Wounds'.' died at sea.. Tne only *ot cas^ is Frank Culyer!nr»n<se, of the '. Canterbury Mounted''Rifles. TlieV rest of the wosn soem in bettor condition- ihan the avprago of returned soldiftH '- ' ? Captain Simpson, of Wdlington, ■tho medioal officer, s!iys tWht thf\ mqn , enormously improved on rVtri'V*{rlj->.? The officer in charge i» Major Bonnett, of Bay o^f Plenty. ' ,';

The vessel experienced moderate v eather, mostly fine. The men for the rorlh and south leave -early to-mor-rcw morning.