WALKING THE GAUNTLET
wlr,-i read with interest an article in your paper of July 19 on survival training, headed "Walking the Gauntlet," and was somewhat amused when, having read of the elaborate scheme for the training of airmen, I glanced at the photograph depicting two of the airmen (hiding out). In my humble opinion these two had already signed their own death warrants. I refer, of course, to the cigarettes both trainees appear to be smoking. One assumes from the text that the exercise is being conducted in simulated hostile jungle country and even an alert Kiwi soldier can smell cigarette smoke from a considerable distance in damp bush, It is a fact all too little known that many a British and colonial soldier lost his life to an alert enemy through indulgence in the "soothing weed," and it is widely known among ex-P.O.W.’s that at least one famous escaper who had reached the border of a neutral State was apprehended simply because the local German defence officer smelt what to him must have been a "fragrance divine" wafting from a near-by forest fringe.. The point of similarity here is that many hours of painstaking work had gone into preparing this man for his attempt to escape, his command of the language was perfect, and his civvy clothes had to be seen to be believed.
THE SCORP
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 11
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228WALKING THE GAUNTLET New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 11
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