PRINCE AND TERRIER

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17164, 22 March 1927, Page 3

PRINCE AND TERRIER

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(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

I A GREAT NIGHT OUT

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LONDON, March 6. ! Clad in battlcfield uniform, 4000 members of the British Legion atj tending the Leicester Conference, tendered the Prince of Wales a great "Flandcrs Banquct" last night. The menu included bully beef, plum and applc jam, and ration biscuits, and the Prince deelared that [lidhing could have pleased him so , well. | He sal amid scenery depicting I wreclced farms, woods, ammunition ' dumps, harbcd wire and other war- | ti ihe reminders. while an imitation j observation balloon floated overhead. On seeing the Prince tx-ying to hite through the iron rations, a Q.M.S. was ordcred to find~liim a drink. The Prince smoked plug tobacco in an old pipe, which, it "was I stipulated, must be lit by tinder, but | he failed lo do so, and pleaded for i a match. I Explosives and flashes of light ihelped to deepen the realism, until the smoke filled the hall and the voices became hoarses, whereupon I there was a new issuc of "rations." j A "German soldier" was dragged I for cross-examination in front of ] the Prince, who was speechless I with laughter. • «