CORRESPONDENCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13824, 20 July 1915, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

TREATMENT OF "RETURNED

WOUNDED.

(To the Editor of "The Colonist.")

I .Sir,—lt was with feelings of disgust and indignation that I read in your, columns "that "the Nelson men were provided by +he Defence authorities with second-class, that is, steerage, passes from Wellington to Nelson.' 1 What inhumanity to expect sick men to travel steerage! This is deplorable, especially happening in the midst of this dastardly fight whilst nearly every one is lifted up with patriotism. It was, however, rectified where necessary by tho thoughtfulness of the Rev. Mr. Butler. These items bring back to us many- sad instances of the poor maimed men who returned after the Roer War. Here it would be well for those liberal people to think of the groat picture o/i the field of Waterloo, where amidst tho passionate fury of the figat, and its terrible powsr lay the dead and" dying wounded, whilst could be heam tho piercing yell of a favourite collie dog, stretched over the prostrate form of a suffering man. This taught great men the lesson of.humanity. It is truly written: "Some are busy with one item —another with others—whilst many have different things to do—and in the end the chief things are omitted. , Yet whilst'in the midst of this iiorria war—and whore .wounded .men arrivei homo to be nursed after giving the-r all-it surely is not a, steerage pass that ought to be given them. , I am, etc., M. DOHERTY. 30, Nib street, July 17.