RETURNING SOLDIERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14625, 1 February 1918, Page 6

RETURNING SOLDIERS.

[United Pkkss Association.]

Auckland, Jan. 31. I A hospital ship las arrived.with 388 invalided men, including 18 officers ana one nurfie. There is a fair proportion of.cot cases. j There .ire 28 cot cases included in the! contingent that arrived to-day, reduced! from 225 at the commencement of the voyage. Two hundred had sustained se-j yere leg and arm wounds, about twenty: liaving last tl:c use of one limb. Ten hwve lost the use of ono eye. -.ilihnon-' ary cases, totalling 40, predominate amongst the sick cases. j Two deaths occurred on the voyage. ! Lieutenant H. Simson, of the iloyal' Flying Corps, died on. January 11th. His father resides in Kav/ke's Bay. Private G. Martin, of Temuka, died this mo_rning. Both were" buried «t .sea. The returned troops were wolcumed by Sir Joseph Ward :.vtid tho Mayor-.(Air Gunsoii). - i