To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cunna Dany News"
Sm—Hor Docatt's apparent grevnee against the cleanliness of the SV.C's Field Kitchen uniforms favours of either professional jealousy or that schoolboyish refuse-io-wash-my-neck complex, which is apt to make your readers feel more like pitying him than roused" at the cobleness of the _antl-cleanliness campaign he is 90. passionately advocating.
1 am sure the Volunteers at home and the BEF, standard of cleanliness Ju eld Kitchen equipment is of the highest, and if his ex-mess sergeant hears of H.D.'s defection to the pro-dirt camp, he and our "kine" friend will sure have words.
In all fairness to the unit cone corned. they are also part and parcel the Defence Force of Shanghai, and og such should be entitled to a chance {o parade (It only comes once a year). After all, the utensils they use are their weapons of defence, whether it a rift, bayonet, saucepan, cleaver (or a ripe tomatoe, it is all the same thing—and didn't Napoleon say "an army marches on ts stomach"? 1 should very much like to ask H.D. one question—does his cook at home wear white at all and if so—why?
There isn't much more one can say except that H.D, should try picking fon some other department of the S.MC, and leave us our sausage and mash, before the FX. gets a-hold of him, so git along li daggle, Shanghai, Nov, 21.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.