SAILORS DRAW KNIVES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15711, 11 September 1914, Page 5

SAILORS DRAW KNIVES.

TWO MEN WOUNDED.

INCIDENT on a barque

DtnrNC. ,1 quarrel knives wero apparently drawn by some of the sailors on board the trench barrio Chateau D'if last Evening, anll as a result one sailor was Blabbed in the back and another received a, g-?h iii-r<>ss the hand. Fortunately the jnju iiifl■' ti'd wore not of a serious nature

Th" barque, whi>.h arrived nt Auckland on Sunday evening from Hamburg, is jvnp »t th* l Km; Wharf. Shortly ho[orP i*'' l o'clock l.ist night the second officer. M" W. Mvarer, of the Clan C„j l |iit,.v l :;, w'ltrh :s also berthed at the K.:.'* Wharf, noticed a sailor .■ : Wwtril the .iMmor. Hie mi|| „,< \f>ry e\. n<-d, and did not undo:?und a word o! Kn(;!isli. Ho took off ii.' '''.it. ami ;t wa.s found that he was 1»1ilr _• i>' t.i.«oly I: "111 .1 deep ound near th,, ,iii i.id' r Mi shonver. with the «' ' ( the steward of the Clan I>!,m! . carefully ( leaned and bandaged j„. v. iund. and the man was able to con v.'v '.lie :inpi e.sSKin that he, had bee-i fiahlvKl lis ' 'tie of the ,-ail.irs on board the (li.nte.n I' ll", I'• notable Blaikie arrived mi the scene, and the injured sailor pointed 'ni a man on hoard the barque whom he alleged was tile aggressor. The mar, 'bus accused denied, in Droke.n Knglish, that he had inflicted the wound, and ali'jed that ho himself had been attacked., and t-howed a deep wound in tils hand ii support of Ins assertion.

,lust then a what f .ffii-'iil who understood .1 little French -qvike to the man who vus wounded in the b.n-k, and the Utter Mat.'d that he w.is lying down when be imj ,i.«saii!t<vi, and he also alleged that three nun altogether hid threatens] him. There wore no officers on hoard the barque at. 'He time of ho incident. The man who was wounded in the hack clearlv intimatc.l that ho was afraid to go on hoard the barque that night and the constable t'-sik him to the Sailors' Home, where h:s wound was treated by a medical man. No arrest has been made, but fnitlier inquiries will be made by the police.