Major Beith, better known as "Inn l|,iv " told some excellent stories in an -id(iicHS at the Overseas Club in England recently. One of the nuccdotes was t (|, a t of a London ■ motor 'bus crowded with "Tommies" entering Lille in the t c'trly davs of the war on their way to i »'[ on , Tho British soldiers were always 5 so cheerful that the French were prct ikired for. anythinv. They saw on the j Lin of the 'bus tho theatre advcrtiso- - ment: "Potash and Perlmntter,' which, i owin" io Iho general hurry, had not »>esu 0 removed, 'the Prench forthwith threw - their caps in tho air and shouted: Vive ii la General Potash." "Vivo la General Perlmutter."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 8
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117Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 86, 6 January 1919, Page 8
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