THE HAPLESS FIJIANS.
FIRST SURVIVOR REACHES HOME. It is now common knowledge that the small Fijian contingent which left for Flanders manv months ago was badly cut up at Festubert .and in the second' battle of Ypres, and that there a,re very few survivors of the gallant little band which volunteered for service during the early stages of the war. The first of the survivors to reach homo travelled from Vancouver to Suva by the Niagara. This wn« LameCorporal S. Wall, who scraped through notwithstanding his live wounds. 'Moreover, except for an arm contracted by the effect of u machine gun bullet, he lias reached home whole, which will not bo said, it is stated by those who have been associated' with the corporal 011 the voyage, of many of those who again reach the sun-baked islands. Wall was iu the firing line for four months., and then spent- a similar period in hospital before he was com-alesceiit-Suva is said to have given the solitary hero a great reception. Bands escorted him from the ship, and the .streets were en fete.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11572, 16 December 1915, Page 5
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181THE HAPLESS FIJIANS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11572, 16 December 1915, Page 5
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