SCARE YARNS AT CAMP.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1901, 22 April 1913, Page 5

SCARE YARNS AT CAMP.

ABOUT ILLNESSES. (Special to Times.) Dannevirke, Last Night. Rumours were floating round Dannevirke to-day that a fatality had occurred at Oringi encampment; that another territorial is seriously ill with appendicitis, and other men also were seriously ill. How the rumours came to be originated it is hard to understand, as special inquiries made this evening elicited nothing seriously wrong at the camp. In tact, there is nothing on which such startling reports could conceivably be based. Capt. Reid Mackay, of the fourth Field Ambulance, who visited Oringi at I p.m., heard the rumours on returning to town, and immediately communicated with Major Cook, in charge of the ambulance division, asking if the reports were authentic. He was informed that there was nothing to warrant the rumours, and that there was do man seriously ill aud no death.

Asked if any existed as a result, of overwork Uupt Mackay ridiculed the idea, and said that personally he had not heard of one complaint regarding the nature of the work. Certainly there was no sickness therefrom. A number of men attended sick parade to-day, but all were suffering from only minor complaints, colds, etc , but nothing of a serious character.

A territorial who was admitted to the Dannevirke Hospital suffering from pneumonia, is getting on well, while a Wellington man who blew the top of a finger off is likewise fast healing. The camp is not in touch with the telepnoue, but the foregointr is the latest official iufnrmatiou therefrom, while territorials in town this morning corroborated it. SCRIBES AT WORK. One very plausibl" reason why the territorials did,not have their fivemile march out to iJuunnv.rke and back on Sunday has leaked out. It appears that the boys were all as busy as bees writing letters to their mothers and best girls. No less than 1800 letters, written in camp during Sunday, were dispatched from Dannevirke yesterday. It is stated that when all the troops were lined up on Saturday four deep they measured a mile long.