MISCELLANEOUS.
A FABLE FROM THE FRONT
LONDON? Oct. 22
A German prince of very high rank was wounded during the fighting at Epernay. There was no German surgeon in the town, so a Staff Officer obtained Dr. Vernon, & celebrated French surgeon, who agreed to perform- an operation on condition that he was paid whatever fee he demanded. After the operation he asked a fee of £7000, the sum the Germans levied on Epernay. The amount was paid the same evening in gold coin bearing the Kaiser's head. The Germans had also stolen 50,000 bottles of. champagne.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 8
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96MISCELLANEOUS. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 23 October 1914, Page 8
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