“NO SURRENDER.”

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 2 August 1916, Page 5

“NO SURRENDER.”

Going his rounds of the Lens Hospital, the Surgeon-Major-in-Chief was no little surprised to find a strange picture tattoed on the chest of one of the wounded. This represented the Kaiser being kicked by a French soldier, and created much amusement among the other inmates. “How came you to have such a dangerous illustration indelibly marked, upon your body? ’ asked tluJ officer with some alarm. Although suffering from a bad shell wound, the poilu laughingly explained that the scene represented graphically what he personally meant to do to the German Emperor if ever he got the chance. “But had you fallen into their hands they would certainly have shot you for lese-majesty,' ’ explained the military doctor, with apprehensive solicitude.' ‘ ‘Soldiers ofmystamp.sir, ’ > replied the man gravely, with a sweeping smile, “die, but never surrender. ”