LUCKY ESCAPE.
An Australian soldier told a London pressman that he was talking “lucky escapes” with a Tommy, who related how a big German shell, landing in “reserves,” caused some consternation. “.Tnsfc as the smoke was drifting away,” he said. “I saw a man coming out of one of the shell holes, simply dripping with black mud—so covered with it you couldn’t see anything else. Ho was one of your Australians.”
“Yes, but how did you know if you couldn’t sec anything but mud 1 ?” objected the Australian. “Oh, I heard what he said!” replied the Torniuy quite seriously.
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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 19 April 1919, Page 4
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99LUCKY ESCAPE. Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 19 April 1919, Page 4
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