A CHAPLAIN'S DEATH
• .. - : .■ . i SHOT WHILE LOOKING FOR : WOUNDED. py Holograph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. September 7, 9.40 p.m.) . Sydney, September 7. Captain Bean, in a message dated 'August 30, says: '.'During the figbt on August 28 a New Zealand chaplain went down a trench to tlio interior of a redoubt, searching for a wounded Ne ; ,v Zealander. The trench was full of wounded Turks, whose wounds, he dressed. Presently voices were heard down the trench, and -the chaplain's companion said: 'I think there must bo Tttrks' in the trench.' "The chaplain answered: 'Well, we will go a little further and see if we can reach him.' Tho chaplain crept forward to a bend in the trench. Suddenly thero was a Teport, and the chaplain fell forward. A rattle of rifle shots broke out making it impossible to, reach him." Captain Bean adds: "If Australia and New Zealand are not .drawn closer together by the way their bo.vs are fighting and dying side by side in the same charges and the same trenches, there must be something rotten in the state of Denmark." ;
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2561, 8 September 1915, Page 5
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181A CHAPLAIN'S DEATH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2561, 8 September 1915, Page 5
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