BACK FROM THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1915, Page 4

BACK FROM THE WAR.

TARANAKI MEN RETURN. SIttATBOBD MAN'S RECORD. Home from the soenes of battle on Galiipoli, Private Sofie, of Waitara, arrived at New Plymouth by the mail train last night. He was met at the ■railway station Iby the acting-Mayor (Mr. W. A. Collis) and welcomed on benaif of the people of New Plymouth. Mr. CoHis expressed regret that owing to the lack of information concerning the movements of returning troopers a •warmer welcome could not be arranged. ;iPrivate Soffe, who was shot in the leg, w*s taken to the New Plymouth Hospital. He is making good progress itowards recovery. Private R. Turrtbull, son of Mrs. Turntall, qf Westown, who has been invalided home owing to a severe attack of enteric, contracted in the trenches, travelled as far as Stratford in the train. He will come on to New Plymouth today. Other men who left the train at Stratford are:—Davis, Otago Mounted; Wilson (son of Mr. A. F. Wilson. Inspector of noxious weeds), sergeant in the Medical Corps; Blake, Ha wife's Bay Company; liac (from Cardiff), 10th Otago Company.

Private. Charles Kellv, of Stratford (a son of Mr. J. Uddell'Kelly, the wellknown journalist), was expected to return last night, but ho broke the journey at Pahnerston North. Private Kelly, who is also a pressman, claims n record. He went into the tr.nehes at Gallipoli on May 8, and came out sick at the end of dune, without bavin'! fired a. single shot. It so happened that during the period mentioned (here was little doing as far as his particular section was concerned, and as the Turks lay close in oover be had not own the satisfaction of saying that he lirnd at one—a positively unique experience. After being two months on the Peninsula he had the misfortune to eoiitra-t enteric, and underwent treatment in the hospital at I.emnos, really a collection of tents. They were well treated, but naturally the treatment was rougher than one gets in a properly appointed hospital on the mainland.'