"ZIGAR, ZIR?"

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 227, 17 November 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

"ZIGAR, ZIR?"

WAITER-LIKE INSTINCT OE A SURRENDERING GERMAN.

Among the officers who arrived i; England from the Sonime battlefield r< cently, Captain H told the folio* ing story:—

"German moral? Well, I don' know. There's a captain of the S aboard this ship, who told me a thin that happened to him alongside us, a Pozieres. He was working along communication trench with a party c bombers, when he met a regular pro cession of Bodies, all holding thei hands well up, and led by one who cat ried nn enormous cigar box over ni head.

"Ihe English officer suspected som sort of foul play, or course. The Bo:1k 1 hav e plaved so many duty"!ricks. Bu the fellow whipned open" the big Tx>t and showed it had nothing in it Du cigars, and explained as well as hi could that it was hy way of being . sort of propitiatory offering, you know "He wound up by saying:— "Thi war no good: 110 good at all, sir. Pk cadilly again soon, now, sir!" O course, they're fed up; but they've go a big machine behind 'cm vet."