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MORE WOUNDED TROOPS
309 RETURNING TO AUSTRALIA.
TURKS FIGHT FAIR.
FREMANTLE. August 18.
Bariythie morning a transport; from the
Dardanelles arrived; and she had on board
48 returned ealcBers for Western Australia,
44 for .South Australia, ; 208 for Victoria,
169 for New South 'Wales, 35". for Queens
land, and 22 for .Tasmania. The number
of the grounded ie 309, and the remainder
are medical tases.
Four men who moved about the decks
were totally blind. They were the .most
pathetic of all to-day's sights. One and
all were certain that the allies would
reach Constantinople. The Turks realise
that, said one ' of the men, and so do
Xbe Germane. One German officer who
gave himself up on the beach-said they
vrould never get Achi Baba, but that he
thought they would reach Constantinople
by working roiind to the rear/and cutting
off communications- "Call the Turk what
you like," added a non-com.'-officer, "but
call him 'a white man.' ; He fights fair;
h¿" treat» our wounded fair. " If it were
not for Germ an officers we .'would have
nothing to complain "about."
•'The men- we have been fighting are
the most mixed crowd imaginable," was
the opinion of another. "We have come
aereas sucli nationalities as Anatolians,
.Circassian», Greeks, and . Bulgarians.
Many of them would desert if they were
only game enough to leave their own
line?.'' The men on the troopship hare
grievance*. What soldiers hare not? Their
chief trouble apparently js à most legi
timate complaint. It is that »me of them
have been described as medically unfit in
the press, when as a matter of fact any
one medically unfit in the army is dis
charged. 1 Many of the returned men on
the ship are on three months' sick fur
lough. The condition*; at present existing
in Egypt are against speedy recuperation
and the men have been sent to Australia
to that the long sea voyage would have a
beneficial effect on their health.
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