A GERMAN’S TREACHERY.
DEATH OF CAPT. JENNINGS. A tragic story surrounds the death of Captain L. S. Jennings, formerly a well-known Canterbury tennis player’, and prior to bis departure with the forces a master at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, A soldier who has since returned to New Zealand states that Captain Jennings was bringing in some 20 German prisonei’s when, noticing one limping along behind the rest in apparent pain and difficulty, he went back to him and asked him if he thought he could get to the base without help. The German muttered something unintelligible, after which Captain Jennings had occasion to turn his back on him. The man instantly lifted a rifle fx’om the ground and shot the captain through the heart. The soldiei’ who related the incident said if was not long before several bayonets bad pierced the treacherous foe.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 16 October 1917, Page 3
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144A GERMAN’S TREACHERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1741, 16 October 1917, Page 3
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