One of the oddest and most amusing coincidences of the wai- was relaxed to a writer m the Daily Mail by a wounded sergeant. The soldier asserLed that a man m his platoon captured a German whom lie fhstantly recognised as a former waiter m "London who had lodged with him and had " shut the moon" without paying his rent just before war was declared. The Tommy who captured his defaulting German lodger promptly made him pay up at the point of the bayonet.
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 713, 28 January 1919, Page 1
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84Untitled Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 713, 28 January 1919, Page 1
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