The Returning Wounded.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 July 1915, Page 3

The Returning Wounded.

_ • 1 Fremantle, July Althougli many New Zealand wouu!eds aboard the hospital ship ore gravely injured none are permanently incapacitated. The must serious case is Lieub Peake, who has lost an anil. Others are unwounded "but arc suffering • ' a kind of paralysis through c «- One explained that a bullet struck and lifted his barrel, and t ! i? force of the impact utterly shattered his nerves, leaving him a shaking and half paralysed man. Another who be.u's a long black line like a bruise af'nss the stomach does not know what sb-itch him. The doctors anticipate his complete recovery. Many arc .sufferm:* from bullet or shrapnel wounds and remain partial cripples. All pay trib-ro to the coolness and gallantry of the landing 'parties who they say fought like old campaigners. They confirm the statement that Turkish women participated in the fighting. One saw the bodies of three women equipped with ammunition belts.