NEGRO SOLDIER
SACRIFICES HIS FEET TO DUTY. United PreSo Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) PARIS, March 9. Spartan devotion to a mistaken sense of duty has caused a Senegalese soldier to lose his feet. He recently returned from the Tropics. He was placed on sentry duty at Rochefort, where the nights were very cold, He had an imperfect knowledge of French, and lie imagined that lie must stand to attention the whole time, He stood as rigid as a statue, despite a snowstorm. When relieved, he was unable to take off his hoots. Yet he continued to do duty in the greatest pain for sixteen nights. He collapsed on the seventeenth night. His loot were so frost-bitten that they had to be amputated, and he is now in the hospital in a critical condition.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1931, Page 5
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132NEGRO SOLDIER Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1931, Page 5
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