Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.
[1] Certainly.. this part of the photoop was deeply unappealing to the recovering Victorians..? did you notice he was more of a cunning linguist, having had to fall back on his translation skills more than once in his career? (having first signed on as a cavalryman)
Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.
Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm
> And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
[0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950.
[1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...