Time He Was Caught
A good story is told by a member of a Field Ambulance in Egypt. ‘‘l was sitting yarning to a German prisoner who spoke excellent English, having been many years, in America,” he writes. “A, few yards away sat a Mapri on his qiyn, ajid as the German could not understand a white . New Zealander with a br.o'wrp one I called the Maori over. Tlie conversation, got round to the treatment, of . prisoners and the German.remarked .that,'lie haa been in the Light Panzer Division for three.years. , Hori. looked, ait him and skid, quite taken aback, .“Three, years! By korry, time you were caught!’ ”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 4
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107Time He Was Caught Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20914, 14 October 1942, Page 4
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