THE TERRIBLE "TERRIES.”

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 84, 16 April 1913, Page 5

THE TERRIBLE "TERRIES.”

ON LEAVE IN DANNEVIRKE

DISGRACEFUL PROCFED \ NGS. [Per Press Association.] Dannevirke, Aprd 16. About 100 Territorials in the Oringj camp visited Dannevirke last night on leave, and the impression created was a very unfavourable one. These were some of the men who failed to attend the stipulated number of <l l ills during the year, and are putting in four extra clays’ drill. Their conduct in the streets early in the evening was disgraceful. Shops were invaded in search of cigarettes. Uniformed youths paraded the streets as noisy as drunken roysterers. Women and girls were objects of coarse remarks, and the pandemonium caused was heard half a mile away. Two of the Territorials eating raw smoked fish invaded an hotel and asked for brandies and sodas, but were refused.

Going back to camp by the 8.30 train, disgraceful proceedings took place. Several carriage windows wqre broken. Many youths were under the influence of drink, and liquor from overloaded stomachs was emptied on to the carriage floors.

“Their conduct,” said a guard, “was worse than the Maoris at a tangi. I shouldn’t have liked to have had the mess to clean up.” One civilian was of opinion that the men should be put in a barb wire enclosure and taught‘ civility and manners before soldiering, if they were going to act as they did last night. Many arrests are reported to have been made when the men* returned to camp.