WHICH WAR?
A LIEUTENANT WHO MADE SURE AND ARRESTED EVERY ONE. War stories from readers have practically become a tradition with London's evening papers during November. Most of them are getting a trifle stale and mannered, as is always the case with a good thing overdone, and hardly any of them are as good as they were when the fashion started, says the London correspondent of the Cape Times. Here, however, is a summary of one story, taken from The Star, which I claim to be the best African war jolce. Tt was sent in anonymously. In the "way-back" portions of Central Africa there was a lieutenant who in August, 1914, got the following message by native runner: "War declared. Arrest enemy aliens immediately." The lieutenant spent a busy day, then sent the boy back with another message. "Have arrested two Frenchmen, one Portuguese, one Italian and wife, one Hollander, one Swede, and seven Germans. Please state with whom war declared."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 155, 23 February 1932, Page 2
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