To the Editor of the "Norru-Causa Dairy Nuws."
Sin, It seems an idle discussion, amounting, I think, to-the point of view from which the demobbed officer re is rank. We were doing the job without thought of post-war honours, simply with the idea of getting it done as soon as possible and reverting to the status quo ante.
I have noticed that it is not the fighting man who sports his loot. Rather that belongs to those extremely fortunate individuals, who had the solace of—Chatlie's, Tortoni's, the Grand, and other more or less well known health resorts to compensate in some measure for the arduous nature of their responsible duties. Places where the chief topics of conversation concerned the "filly in the corner" and the latest news (vide the Continental "Daily Mail") from a mysterious region dimly recognized under the sobriquet "up the line."
"They also serve—ete.""
These I think might follow (once again) the example of the great majority of officers of the field units and might carefully put away their uniform, commissions, ribbons, and titles in' a moth-proof compartment, only to be removed at the com mencement of the next war, when doubtless the experience the owners have gained in this will be invaluable—in rendering correctly A-F.B. 213 and such like returns.
I am, etc., Temp. Lievt.
Nanking, Aug. 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.