RELIEF DRAFT ARRIVES IN JAPAN

Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1946, Page 2

RELIEF DRAFT ARRIVES IN JAPAN

♦ KUh'E, August 11). The t'hilral, carrying the second reliel diaft for the Second N.Z.E.TV ;.lajiau), arrived at Kure late- yesterday afternoon after u 19 day voyage from Aew Zealand. She was two days behind sehedule owing to the allenag of her conrse on receipt of typhoon wnniiugs. The vessel was also liove to for 24 hours because of a tyjdioou. The only pori of call en roule was Suva where Ihe ship stayed seveu hours. The troops were takou ashore for a route niarch through the tow.il. Thirty-Iivo cases of itiuinps were adniitted to the ship's hospital during Ihe voyage and there were several cases oi' intluen/.a hui none serious. t Driver .1. ('. Lund was oporated on for ai>pendicitis short ly after the ship left New Zealand and was left at Suva in hospital. Tiie troops were oager (o disembark and see Japau for themselves as soon as pi.ssilde, and oflicors meeting tlie ship were overwhelmed with (piestions varying from cuiTent markcL costs to "when will we go to Tokio ? ' ' Early this morning in the summer heat which thc meu fouud more impres sive tinui the heat oi' the trdpics, d-s-embai kation hegan and shorlly aftei noon all the special troop trains chrfying t 1k' draft had left for the Ncw Zealand area. . The Chilral's probable dato-iof departurc for the voyage liome w.ith the second rctuniiug draft is on August 24.