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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17199, 20 June 1916, Page 9

■\Ye aro not prepared to guarantee t.lio truth of this story, but it is going the rounds that a soldier in a certain hospital has been operated on four times in an endeavour to extract a bul--et from bis lower ribs. On tho last occasion lie stated iio bad a request to make before going under chloroform. Permission baring been granted him to make it, he remarked to t\’ic surgeon: ‘‘Oh, it’s .naotbfng much. I jist want to suggest, that if you are