WOUNDED BY BAYONET
INCIDENT AT CAMP. SEAMAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. October 5. Andrew Sim, able seaman, of the Kakapo, is in the Auckland Hospital recovering from a bayonet wound. He was admitted at 8.45 o'clock on Thursday evening after an encounter with sentries at an armed guard post on the waterfront. From official quarters it was learned today that Sim is alleged to have climbed over a barbed wire entanglement. A sentry ordered him not to climb the barrier, but he persisted, and a corporal of the guard came along. It is assumed, it is stated, that Sim offered to fight the corporal, and made threatening rushes at him. The corporal immediately came to the “on guard” position with his rifle and Sim, it is stated, ran against the bayonet. Sim’s condition is satisfactory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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