SPARTAN DEVOTION TO DUTY.
SENEGALESE SOLDIER’S SUFFERING. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 9, 7.30 p.m.) PARIS, March 9. Spartan devotion to a mistaken sense of duty caused a Senegalese soldier to loose his feet recently. He returned from the tropics, and was placed on sentry duty at Rochfcxrt, where the nights were very cold, and he had an imperfect knowledge of French and imagined that he must stand to attention the whole time. He stood rigid as a statue despite the snowstorm When relieved, he was unable to take off his boots, and yet continued duty, in the greatest pain for sixteen nights, and collapsed on the seventeenth. His feet was so frostbitten that they were amputated, and he is now in hospital in a critical condition.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18822, 10 March 1931, Page 9
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129SPARTAN DEVOTION TO DUTY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18822, 10 March 1931, Page 9
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