Though its neighbours had not fared so well, the barracks was still the tark, formidable building of pre-its gaunt front a little speckled with bullet marks, a few windows shot out from shell bursts in the school grounds opposite and the only real dent in its reinforced concrete shell a shallow gash on the western wall....so much for Chinese gunnery and the aim of her aerial raiders. On the west wall above the inner barrack square, one air missile had blown a hole through brickwork into the top balcony without other damage than a score of window panes.
Great quantities of G. S. lorries, trucks and cars were in the square and all around were men either most busily engaged or completely off duty All looked fit, alert, scrupulously clean and vigorous. Mostly they represented sturdy youth.
The party went up steps and through wonderfully cool corridors flanked by rooms crowded and comfortable in the manner of naval officers' cabins, which of course was in the correct manner of things. And how they clung to the navy touch despite their military Buttons bore anchor embossi so did caps and steel helmets. The off id boots were of a distinctly transport the Middlesex ment, which arrived in Colony this morning from Sin, and an Indian mounted bat-to Shanghai at very short
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