A TRUE STORY.
A group of soldiers surrounded a minute imp of an Egyptian boy in one of the huts at Zeitoun. The boy held a pop-gun into the muzzle of which was stuck a table knife. The child was an expert at rifle drill. The orderly-corporal hurried through the crowd but was halted by the imp with the gun. “’Alt! ’oo go dere ?” he challenged. “Go and get !” was the impolite rejoinder. Like a flash, the miniature sentry returned to the slope with the nonchalant remark, “Pass, Australia!” He knew his men!
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Erk's Work, 1 February 1941, Page 19
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93A TRUE STORY. Erk's Work, 1 February 1941, Page 19
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