MONKEY CAPTURES THE COLOURS. Monkeys can go "over tho ton" oi a battle trench as Well' us wale. a. hand organ. An American paper publishes a story Iron) its correspondent iu tho battle-nicked Carso, in thc'Alps, whore a monkey captured tho Austrian colours unaided. "Bebe" was the pet of'an Italian captain. Holding the line/against the Atrstrians, the captain's command faced an enemy position on the ton of which the Austrian standard constantly flew. Italian troops brought it down, hut up it came again. When its mascer wont out.in tho dead of night to bring hack the flag the monkey went w:th him. As the monkey cleared the last strand of- barbed wire below the iestrian parapet, "Bebe" flashed like a wraith over tho ±op, tore the flag from its stall', and scooted back. Both returned to the Italian safely.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10114, 23 October 1917, Page 6
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