A SLIGHT ERROR.
The following recruiting story told ny an officer nt tScaforth shows how prone is a simple mind to bo contused by the elaborate cross-questioning which oho now recruit has to undergo. The officer wiw entrusted with the collection oi particulars necessary lor the allotment of allowances to the soldiers' dependents. He was interrogating a young fellow who did not seem to have a. clear idea what it was all about. "Next-of-kin?" he asked, in a sharp, businesslike way. The young follow dropped hi« voice and became confidentially apologetic. 'I'm only wearing a jersey, my shirt's getting'wabhed." TO DATE. Uases to right oi' them, Clases to left of them, Gases in front ot thorn. Ohemic'ly thundered. -Nix on the .shot and shell. Was has a uewor hell— Into an acid hath. Into a poison smell. Rode the (six hundred. —Tennyson in Flanders. MSMiimMMuimiAim
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1915, Page 3
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145A SLIGHT ERROR. Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1915, Page 3
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