THE HAPLESS FIJIANS.
FIRST SURVIVOR REACHES HOME. A GREAT RECEPTION. It is now common knowledge that the small Fijian contingent which left for Flanders many months ago was badly out up at Festubert and in the second battle of Ypres, and that there are very few survivors of the gallant little band which volunteered for service during the early stages of the war. The first of the survivors to reach home travelled from Vancouver to Suva by the Niagara, which reached Auckland on Monday. This was Lance-Cor-poral S. Wall, who scraped through notwithstanding his five wounds. Moreover, except for an arm contracted by the effect of a machine-gun bullet, he has reached home whole, which will not be said, it is stated by those who have been associated with the corporal on the voyage, of many of those who again reach the sun-baked islands. Wall was in the firing line for four months, and then spent n similar period in hospital, before he was convalescent.
Suva is said to have given the solitary hero a great reception. Bands escorted him from tb; ship and the streets were en fete. •
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 7
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189THE HAPLESS FIJIANS. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1915, Page 7
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