STRICKEN TROOPSHIP.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1919, Page 6

STRICKEN TROOPSHIP.

!■ OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA. ! The soldiers who left New Zealand as the mounted drait of the 41st Rein- : forcemcnt have had an unenviable experience, as is disclosed by a latter received in Wanganui. The draft of 500 men left Wellington by the Moeraki for ! Sydney, where they were Shipped on board a transport with 1,000 Australian ; Light Horse. At a South African port j .the transport was recalled. I. "We arrived at Port Adelaide on S&t----i urday from Albany," the writer states. | "We were not allowed to land at Albany. and the lumpers refused to coal | the ship Without heavy sureties. About ; ten cases of influenza were put off at , I Albany, and we left over 500 men at ' 1 Fremantle. We Were at Fremantle for eight days, lying about three days out. ,Up to the time we left, there were 25 i deaths. It.was a sad sight to set the , worst cases being put over the side into small tug-boats, as the sea was choppy, «nd they were drenched before reaching i the quarantine station. At present (time of writing) 400 men are in quaxI antine on Torrens Island, off Port Ade- , laide."