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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 190, 20 January 1915, Page 5

Aii amusing incident of a uiareh in Kent is related in the following letter received in Bolton frroii Cycle-Sergfe f. C. i'al!i~. ."itii Loyal. North Lancashire Territorial*. in training at SeVcuoaks' "Our Iwtialioii turned out in full marching order and proceeded to our usual p-a.'lice ground, Knole Park. The eyrie suction man-lied in tlio rear of th« column, and an ordinary-looking man. i'ame to rue and asked rao a lot of particulars about tliß battalion. He told .me he had seen a lot of soldiering in i -lis time, and said ho must confess that j our men struck him as being about the | smartest _on the march he had ever | seen outside reyilars. He asked me for «o many particular? about them, and ! also about their W)VK that I thought T «honld detain liim ns a- sort of spy. I c\cn«ed myself and rode off to the head of the column and informed one of Our majors as to the nature, of the conversation, etc., and took the man later to the said major md then left them and tool- mv section ot mad-finding l , j .An officer of our* stopped me to-day. j and !sm?Wnjrly n -Vc,i me if T knew whom i f liad tried lo »nt under arrest. I aii- ! ih-, »«d hj» told me it i ths no h'.-s thnn "Radv/trd Kipling." J :