DISCIPLINE IN WARFARE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13093, 18 April 1908, Page 8

DISCIPLINE IN WARFARE.

A letter from a doctor with w*% French forces in Morocco relates near Settat, during a fierce eagp&*& ment, a soldier of the Foreign ■was sfcruok by a Moorish ballet fell flat on h'ia face. "He is «ffcf eaid his corporal, leaning over Lifting a battered face, the Lqpoj&j ajy greaned : ."No, corporal, not ae*»ig Irat badly hurt." "Where is jour p*js| feet of lint?" demanded the »rpoPM.3| "I have forgotten it." Mid ./J2ll soldier, trying to -wipe away tie n** , *!! ''Two days' apest " ehonted th»*ggj poral, acd lifting'ther^jroeaded^BeSS

to his back ne staggered to tie neartet doctor amid a hail of bullets.

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