THE CORRECTION.
. Mistakes of military signallers are sonuy times amusing. A German prisoner escaped from an internment camp, and to facilitate recapture a description of the man was circulated. The description contained a. succession o£ sibilant sounds, which rendered its reception by telephone somewhat difficult. One signaller, after struggling valiantly with the prisoner's name, appearance, etc., finished the message with "height sft 6 all beaid and moustache." The possibility of a sft 6 beard wandering about on its lonesome was questioned, with the result that the following correction w-as circulated.: "Please toad 'small' for 'ail.'"
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 16
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95THE CORRECTION. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 16
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