DEEP IN THE DARK OF A BURMESE JUNGLE
COMES A REPORT THAT ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS SNAKES HAS INVADED A COMPANY’S RADIO SET!
Nothing so stimulates the attention of an army Signaler than discovering that his midnight trench has been infiltrated by one of the World’s most deadly snakes!
Major Harry Smith of the British Royal West Kents in Burma in WWII
“Heard the muffled curses from his B Company Signaller’s Trench “ I demanded, angrily in a Stage whisper;
“What the Hell was going on.”
“Very sorry Sir” came the reply, “But there’s a bleeding snake in our Wireless set!”
"There was too—- A Banded Krait one of the deadliest Killers.”
(Story contained in Reel 5 of Smith’s oral history)
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