TWO-UP ON TROOPSHIP.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 January 1919, Page 7

TWO-UP ON TROOPSHIP.

-—o CHAPLAIN IN PHOTOGRAPH SYDNEY, January 14. When the Sardinia inquiry was resumed, Sergeant Paul, ship’s orderly room sergeant, said that owing to thpre having been no fit men to do police work it was found impossible to enforce flic iprohibtion 1 Against gambling. Mr. Broomfield: Did you ever try your luck in a two-up school? Witness: Well, slightly I did. Did you oven see any of the officers playing two-up? —No. Have a look at" this photograph. Isn’t that a padre over the spinner’s shoulder? —I fancy it is. He was not holding a litlc prayer meeting there, was he? —I don’t think so - > ! Did you think it right for you, a sergeant, to play with the school?— I din’t consider a little game like that played fairly is harmful. But orders prohibited it, didn’t they?—The order did not say that two-up was gambling. Is that what you say now? —Well, personally, I consider two-up played fairly is a fair gamble. But do you consider that you were setting a good example to the men by playing two up? Liston to the order dated October 27: ‘‘All forms of gambling prohibited except house.” —Oh, but the armistice was not signed then. But what has the armistice to do with it? Could you "play two-up after that? —Well, things would get .easier with the war over, and two-up is a natural sport.