SHELL IN THE SOUP!
APPENDICITIS STORY. Tall stories from the front have hitherto been conspicuous by their absence. We are treated to one today, but, as chapter and verse are given for all that is said, one must not be too sceptical perhaps about the recital. For that master the news does not come from the front, but from a hospital at Le Blanc, where a soldier named Louis Rochet, of the 68th Regiment, has been operated upon for appendicitis. When the appendix was examined it was found to contain a shell splinter as big as a pigeon's egg. As the patient had never been wounded, this discovery left the surgeons considerably perplexed. He related that during the recent offensive hot soup was served out to his company during the height of the engagement, when the enemy's fire was bursting all around them. He supposes that the splinter fell into his broth, and was swallowed down at a gulp as he emptied his tin and bounded onwards again in the wild rush for the German trenches. The explanation sounds plausible enough but the case is, all the same as remarkable as it is unique.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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