"COLD FEET."

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 4

"COLD FEET."

MR. HORNSBY'S CHARGE. By Telegraph.—Special to Daily Newi. Wellington, Last Night. The suggestion that certain men who returned among the sick and Wounded on the Tahiti are suffering from the complaint an American would describe as "cold feet," was mentioned again by Mr. Hornsby in the House to-night, the member asked if it was true that two Ministers of the Crown had admitted this charge on Saturday. The matter is a delicate one to discuss, but it may be said, in justice to Mr. Hornsby, who U being blamed severely for raising the question in the House, that the accuiation is a subject of general discussion in Wellington, and that it has had its origin in official quarters. New Zealand Las sent away some 20,000 men, and the Defence Minister says that not a single one of them has fallen short of his duty. It would be possible, though certainly unpleasant, to produce some evidence on the other side. That is Mr. Hornsby's case in a nutshell, but the feeling in the House is that he blundered badly in ventilating such a matte* publicly.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night

Mr. Hornsby Baid to-night that he desired, with reference to the matter he had mentioned on the previous evening, to ask the Minister if he was aware that two Ministers of the Crown had been heard to remark, referring' to men Who had returned by the Tahiti, that some were suffering from "military rheumatism," otherwise known »» "cold feet." He wished a clear answer, as the matter could not stop where it was. He also desired to know whether there was any truth in the statement that there was considerable waste of food going on in one, at least, of the military c»mp».