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Hira Singh

CHAPTER III
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And this time they began to let us feel the iron underlying their persuasion.

Once, to make talk and gain time before answering a question, I had told them of our labor in the bunkers on the ship that carried us from India.

I had boasted of the coal we piled on the fire-room floor.

Lo, it is always foolish to give information to the enemy--always, sahib--always! There is no exception.
Said they to us now: "We Germans are devoting all our energy to prosecution of this war.

Nearly all our able-bodied men are with the regiments.


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