GARRISON AT SAMOA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16285, 19 January 1915, Page 5

GARRISON AT SAMOA.

HEALTH OF THE TROOPS. (Peb United Pbbss Association.) WELLINGTON, January 18. Reporting to tton Defence. Department, Colonel Logan, commanding the garrison at Samoa, 3tates that the general health of the troops is good. The- following are under treatment for the ailments mentioned, and all are doing well: — Battery.—Corporal L. S. Carmicbacl (dengue fever), Gunner R. H. Dobson (dengue fever), Private H. E. Hatch (injured foot). Railway Engineers.—Sergeant F. W. Aickin (dengue fever). Lance-corporal F. Diver (dengue fever); Sappers W. R. Auld (dengue fever), C. Cecil (abscess). Auckland Regiment.—Major W. Kay (appendicitis), Private T. E. Peek (fever). Wellington Regiment.—Sergeant-major G. B. M'Morran (jaundice), Lance-corporal L. Guthrie (gastritis), Privates H. Stubbs and O. Thompson (rheumatism), T. T. Kennedy (lumbago), H. M'Cormick (gastritis), C. A. C. Woodford (denguo fever), E. Hart (ear trouble). Medical Corps.—Private C. Rae<burn (conjunctivitis), Chaplain-captain E. E. Maiden (ptomaine poisoning). THE REINFORCEMENTS. Men are still required for the fifth reinforcements, but no more will be taken for Samoa at present. Tho Allgemeen Handelablad states that a rumour is current in Berlin that a Prince of the Imperial family, whose name is not ni"nt : onrd. has boon ordered by the Kaiser not to wear tho Iron Croas because of tho i b n.)rance si,own by him in commanding nis troops in France. The story even adds that the Kaiser summoned the Prince to his headquarters, and in tho presence of his staff tore the Cross from tho Prince's uniform. Another of the thousands of old soldiers — " mercenaries" Germans call them in their pleasant way—who are so magnificently rejoining, the colours is Piper Findlatcr, V.C, who won immortality bv cheering his comrades to victory in tho Dargai charge by playing "Tho Cock of tho North" to them while he lay wounded. He was a man of 26 then; to-day ho is 42, and ho has been for tho last 17 years .working his farm in Aberdeenshire,