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As lo how people can completely disappear through intensive shell fire, the following might he mentioned isays the "Saturday Review"!. A certain high military official to one of the fighting fronts towards the dose of lasi year was going round nr making use or the customary tours arranged f,,r visitors: he was in by no means a dangerous spot. On the contrary, he was far back from the fighting lines, well out of range of machine gun and rifle, and perhaps of lighter Held guns. But whilst he was examining one of the villages where fighting last year had been severe a chance shell removed him. Nothing ever seems to have been found of him. He bad disappeared as completely as the vast bulk "f the wood which once clolhed the plateau of Vaux. There must have been many instances of this kind during furious fighting at the front: but this incident is worth mentioning in that it occurred several inile_ behind the fighting line.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 15
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