DISCIPLINE IN WARFARE.
A letter from a doctor with the French forces in Morocco relates that near Settr.t, during a fierce engagement, a soldier of the Foreign Legion was struck by a Moorish bullet and fell flat on his face. "He is dead,'' said his corporal, leaning jver him. Lifting a battered face, the Legionary groaned: "No, corporal, not «dead, but badly hurt." "Where is .your packet of lint?" demanded the coporal. "I have forgotten it," said the soldier, trying to wipe away the blood. "Two days' arrest shouted the corporal, and lifted the wounded man on to his back he staggered to the nearest doctor amid a haU of >bullets.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9070, 22 April 1908, Page 7
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111DISCIPLINE IN WARFARE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9070, 22 April 1908, Page 7
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