DANGEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS.
j LATEST DODGES OF RXIS' DUG-OUTS. Something of the fiendish ingenuity of the Boche was revealed to the writer the other day by a Tommy who wa 3 exhibiting some of the treasures he had gathered in cleaning up a recently-occupied German dugout. One of these, carefully preserved between the leaves of a magazine, was the photograph of what was evidently a German girl, punctured with no fewer than a dozen bulletI holes. Did you take it from a German solflier?" I asked. "No sir," was the reply, "only from the wall of a dug-out." "But how did she come to get so shot to pieces " I asked hanteringly; "I have never heard that the British soldier makes war on women." But this lydv was making war on us sir, he answered, with a smile; "or leastways, one of 'er friends three or touf dug-outs down the line tried to strafe us, and we had order* to strafe back.' Then he went on to explain that the Tommies had always vied with one another m collecting photographs from the walla of the captured dug-outs as souvenirs—a circumstances which the Germans who appeared to have got wind of it in some way. endeavored to take advantage of bv running a. wire from the back of some natural decorations to mines concealed beneath the floor, The Tommies had alreadv learned to avoid stepping on the loose ends of boards, and to refrain from rocking tortoises and picking up inconsequential odds and ends fro mthe floor: but the mined photograph was something new,, and before the ruse was discovered several "cleaning-up" parties were made to pav rather heavily for the desire of of their members to add another Fraulein to their iw«ture galleries. ' ° ~!?]'°'?" eo " f,ctin P languished for some little time after the designing nature" of some of these abandoned Gretchens and Hildas had been disclosed, and it is still the custom to give anv picture with a suspicious bulge behind it—if there is room to do it in -afcty—a, few propitiatory shots before seeking closer acquaintance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 7
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346DANGEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS. Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 7
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