Chitral Draff Leaves For N.Z.
(Official Correspondent With J Forcei KURE. July 24.
The second returning draft —the last 1900 of New Zealand’s 135.000 active service troops to return home —left Japan early this morning on board the Chitral which is expected to arrive at Wellington on or about September 9. The troops left the three main New Zealand centres in special troop trains and after travelling most of the night arrived at Kure early yesterday morni<ng.
Embarkation was carried out smoothly and before noon all the officers and men. hospital patients and nursing sisters and VADs were settled in their quarters. There was general satisfaction with the accommodation which is far from overcrowded. The first day’s meals were first-class. As the troops lined the rails for thenlast sight of Japan, they looked even more cheerful than their replacements had been when they arrived last week. The returning draft is made up of men who left New Zealand with the 14th and 15th reinforcements and came from Italy to Japan in February.
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1946, Page 5
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