“We were awakened by a terrific explosion,” writes Major D. D. McCarthy. Dunedin, to his parents, in describing life in the Kenya jungle, on patrol with the African Rifles. “It was a good distance away, certainly, but everybody stood for hours waiting for the next move. Nothing happened. The next morning we discovered that an elephant bad trodden on a land mine. It was known to have been an elephant because one foot was found. A few weeks ago a giraffe made the same mistake, but only a few bite of skin remained. Those things certainly go with a bang.”
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 179, 26 April 1941, Page 10
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