LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 3, 7 December 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A young Stratl'ordiau, writing from Trentharn Camp, says ; "Camp life is splendid, and 1 am sure, that if many a young chap knew what it is like, he would come in straight away. A s a matter of fact, it is too modern to be like a camp ,and the only thing that reminds 'ns that it is a military camp. is- reveille'at 6 a.m. daily. That is when the Camp springs to' life."

A man accustomed to independence of thought and action may feel Ten tbam's discipline irksome for a 'day or , two," but he (soon •finds himself fitting ! smoothly into the military machine and he is proud to be one of the cogs. The progress which a very raw recruit may have, to make in a few hours is shown in a story told by .Captain Shaw, the Presbyterian chaplin. At his first dinner in the officers' mess (says an exchange) the staff of orderlies included a young man who was obviously raw to the work of viriting at tabic. .An officer ordered apple-pie. and presently this embarrassed waiter appeared with a dish. He stood in the middle of the passage and looked hopelessly at the' lines of heads, as be could not recognise the face of the officer who bad desired the delicacy. Then suddenly the meal was interrupted ,b v this ejaculation: ''Which of von 'blokes ordered apple-pie?"