Old Concertina in a Nose-Bag Not everybody admires the music of a concertina, but a crowd of men on a destroyer somewhere between Greece and Crete thought it was the loveliest music in the world. A Salvation Army welfare officer had. to leave Greece at a moment's- notice, so he stuffed his concertina in a horse's nose-bag and swam for it; his companion was left behind and captured. Eventually he rcachecl a waiting destroyer and soon got his beloved concertina going.' He led the crowd of soldiers in old-time songs and hymns. And no one cared If the thing in the , quarter-mile swim had got a little water in its In'ards.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 10, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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111Untitled Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 10, 30 January 1942, Page 6
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