BUSHMAN SCORES
EXCHANGE WITH NAZI OFFICER
Amongst the New Zealand wound, eil captured by the Germans at tIK hospital near Malemi, in Crete, and subsequently rescued byi their comrades, there was an irrepressible bushman from the King Country, who scored rather neatly in an ex change of compliments Avith a Naj.i officer. The incident is described in a letter home from another of the
ivoundcd men
When the Nazi officer appeared, the bush-whacker promptly started to give him "clieelc," quite regard* less of what might be the Nazi's revenge. The German told him to hold his tongue and called him a "schwejnhund." "That's Hun for dog, isn't it, Adolf?" asked the bushwhacker. "Well, you'd appreciate the compliment if you'll ever seen one of our King Country pig dogs bailing up an old Captain Cooker of a boar,, ten times his own weight. That's what we've been doing to you here in Crete, isn't it,, Adolf?"
The Nazi officer must have been, tis the writer suggests, "not. such a really bail sort," for he merely told the stout bushman to "shut up and not try to be funny, or it would be the worse for him"—or something to that effect in mixed German and English.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 142, 15 August 1941, Page 3
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204BUSHMAN SCORES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 142, 15 August 1941, Page 3
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