TOO REALISTIC. At a territorial camp a battalion tow beings instructed bn. ‘“How to take a convoy through: open country.” One company was told off to represent a oonvby, the meh Being told to that , they were to .represent horses, cows, •nd waggons/; When the order to advance was.given, the convoy moved on* but the major noticed that one man continued to lie down. He galloped up to him and said, “Why don’t you advance?” ; Tiiia r man replied, “I can’t, sir.” I “You can? What do you mean?” * “I’m a waggon, and I’ve got a wheel cff.” ’4? STILL ANOTHER ONE. r A Scotsman told his wife he probably would, not be home to dinner that evening, and if he were not coming, hh would ’phone her at exactly 5 o'clock; then admonished, “But when you hear the bell, don’t answer -it; you’ll’know what it means and I'll get my penny back.”
; STRANGE IRONY OF WAR ■j A strange irony of the war fans come to William Sellick, a disabled ex-ser-viceman at Kettering, Northamptonshire./ He is curator of two German guns of the type that maimed him. He ele’ans rhese war trophies belonging to the town and tends flowers plantea round’them. “.Bill” ,was partly paralysed ii> a shrapnel bombardment.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 319, 29 December 1936, Page 3
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