• Private Blobs, who was stationed on. duty near soiuo cliffs, was asked by bis'superior officer if anything un. usual had happened whilst he had been on guard. "No, sir 1" said Blobs smartly. "Do you, know anything about the colour-sergeant falling over the cliffs and killing himsolf P" "Yes, sir!" said Blobs. "It happened just after wo changed guard at 4 o'clock." "Then isn't that unusual, and why do you not report it?" said the S.O. "I did not report it as an unusual occurrence, sir, because if lie had fallen over the cliffs and not beon killed it would have beon unusual."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2870, 7 September 1916, Page 4
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