RETURNED FROM SAMOA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2566, 14 September 1915, Page 6

RETURNED FROM SAMOA

THIRTY OFFICERS AND MEN. (By TeleeraWi.-—Press; Association.) ' .' Auokland, September 13. , Thirty , .of the . Sainoan garrison . re: turned last night By the steamer Na--vua. . They reported everything quiet at Samoa anil the health of tlie men' to be good. The officer iii. command"of the returned party is Captain C. H. Matthews, of the Garrison Artillery, adjutant to tie Samoan Relief Force. Other officers are: —Capts. A. W. Izard, of Wellington, and H. G. H. Monkj Auckland; Lieut. C. Mackie, 'Auckland, and Lieut. F. H. \ Anderson, Wellington. Of these, Capt. Matthews, Capt. Izard, 'and Lieut.: Anderson are recalled for. duty. Capt. Monk and Lieut. Mackie are invalided. •The returning non-commissioned officers and men are-.—Sergt.-Major Copeland, Meidical Corps, Wellington, recalled for duty ; Sergts. R. Croucher, Auckland, invalided; C. B. Bay, recalled for duty; Corpls. A. Colston, C. E. R. Kelly, J. Gardiner; Pts. F; \V. Bezar, F. E. Bailey ; J. R. Burns, D. J. Deverill, C. Dickinson, J. W. Elmsley, J. Elrick, G. H. Foote, W. Lomax, A. Macß-ae, S. Marenzi, C. C. Neville, J. G. Scrimgeour, E. Wallace, W. F. Morris, C. O'Connel, P. L. Price, C. M. Kceple, and M. J. Dunne. Of tho returning soldiers, Lieut. Anderson, Sergt.-Major Copeland and Sergts. Bay and Croucher left with tlie Advance larty, but the other officers and men were all members of the Relief Force, which, went 'to Samoa in April.