INVALIDED SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 5

INVALIDED SOLDIERS

• RETURNS TO NEW ZEALAND. < (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) *' Auckland, July 7. ■ Looking quite fit again after a turn iof scarlet fever conies .Private A. Fi-aser ■ as a passenger by the Riverina on liis way back fi»m Egypt to ; his home in Canterbury. He was invalided home along with about 400 Australians and ■'Now Zealanders, but had to remain in quarantine in Melbourne for about six weeks. Ho is anxious- to get ,to the iront again, and with that end in viow promptly presented himself at the local headquarters for t'lio purposes of in- ■ quiry. .-X . v. : Private Eraser went out with the Ir.aiu body, and he was under fire against the Turks who attacked tho Suez Canal x>n February 2 and 3. Ho was with the New Zealanders who served as reinforcements to the Indian troops'at Elferdan. ! ' iThe returned soldier says that the Turks .were a very inferior lot, just stragglers Lvho had been tfeht' forward while- the .trained troops were reserved. for the '•Dardanelles, at least, that was tho general impression. The Indians fought well, , said Private Eraser,: and had no difficulty in masterinn; tho .attackers. Ho also said that lie left Egypt- at the end of April, and when at Suez heard that tho Australasians had effected a landing at tho Dardanelles. .< - Private Fraser mentioned that scarlet • lever was prevalent among tho troops in Egypt, and that .measles.of a severe kind were ■ very rife. Tho authorities .were, however/handling the situation . Effectively. 7