SWIFT ACTION
AUSTRALIAN COMPLIMENTED BY GENERAL KNOCKED OUT. INCIDENT DURING INSPECTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. The “Daily Mirror’s” correspondent, Gordon Gaskill, recently in Africa, says a British general incognito, inspecting a camp at night, persuaded an Australian sentry to hand over his rifle. Clutching the rifle, the general stepped back, revealed his identity and demanded: “What are you going to do now. The Aussie swung a haymaker. floored the general and retrieved the rifle. The next morning he was paraded before the general bn the first charge of allowing himself to be relieved of his rifle and was reprimanded. On a second charge of striking a superior officer the general complimented him on his “swift, decisive action.” On another occasion a single Australian, armed with a light machinegun, was deputed to guard several hundred Italian prisoners. An inspecting officer later found him surrounded by interested Italians wjth the gun in pieces, explaining how it worked.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1942, Page 4
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