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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A COSTLY JOKE. I'ARIS. April 21. A Si-lie.l le v soldier ran aim U at .Marseilles, hilling tlirve and wounding ten comrades. It. turns out the affair "as due to c-n-tii-al i-ik" played in the d •rmi-o,|-,,f iln- ban ai l;s where the colouicd troop- an- housed. The soldier was aged 32, and "as only five days from Africa. Some of his comrades told him lie "as going ui lu shot. Tans I rayed on the man's mind. He slept little, and wakened in terrible nightmares. When the bugle sounded the reveille < n Sunday, he armed himself with a knife, ami sprang at Ins comrades. He rut their throats. Three were killed in a lew seconds. Ihe orliers were wounded heiero the Senegalese was overpowered.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 3
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132MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1923, Page 3
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