ZEALOUS CORPORAL
AN ARMED ARREST LANGUAGE PROBLEM LONDON, Nov. 28. It is impossible to plant an army in a foreign land without an occasional misunderstanding. There was the ease of the railway stair at one of the several British railheads in northern France, who had been warned about spies. A corporal noticed<a man wandering round the railway yard, peering right and left. The corporal called out the guard, and arrested the visitor at the point of the bayonet. He was locked in the oflice with an armed guard outside. If is voluble and unintelligible protests only made his captors more suspicious.
It was not until the railway transport officer arrived that it was discovered that he was an eminent official of the French railways, who had been busy inspecting the railheads where British troops and supplies are arriving. 4
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 12
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139ZEALOUS CORPORAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 12
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