Those Health Robinson contraptions, the Field Kitchens, with their white-garbed cooks in "chef" caps and their chimneys shaking up great louds of smoke, were not in the parade this year, much to the dismay of the many photographers who had been saving up a film or two for them, The lorries brought the march past to a end, The Corps marched down Love Lane into Yates Road and back to the Race Course by way of Weihaiwei and Mohawk Roads.
Here they were dismissed and after posing for group photographs and having a drop or two of light refreshment were free to go home, Along Bubbling Well and Nanking Roads, however, the police were busy for at least another twenty minutes coping with the unprecedentedly heavy pedestrian traffic. Buses and trams were only allowed to filter through slowly, while motor trafic had to reduce its speed to a crawl, By 4 o'clock, however, things were normal once more,
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