Military Rules.
« "On the train the other day," remarks the Washington "Star," "a private sat with his tunic unbuttoned, for the temperature was high. A sergeant strode up to him and said:— " 'Butt,on up that tunic! Did you never hear of By-law 2.17, Sub-section D? I'm Sergeant Jabez AVinterbottom! ' "A gentleman in the seat behind tapped the sergeant sternly on the shoulder. " 'llow dare you issue orders with a pipe in your mouth?' lie asked. 'Go home and read Paragraph 174, Section M, part IX. I am Major Eustace Carroll. ' "Here a gentleman with a drooping white moustachc interposed from the other side of the aisle: — " 'If Major Carroll,' lie said ' will consult By-law 31 of Sectiou K, he will learn that to reprimand a sergeant in the piv-stmce of p private iii an offence not lightly to "bo overlooked.' "
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 December 1917, Page 1
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140Military Rules. Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 December 1917, Page 1
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