Feb. 14
'The men of the Loyal Regiment stationed at Singapore, or at least eighty per cent. of them, have ceased to shave the upper lip, in response to a wish expressed by their' commanding officer, Lt.-Col, M. Elrington. Indeed the regiment is concentrating on a pleasant little competition to discover who. can grow the best hirsute decoration just below the nose. It is stated that some already have grown moustache after the fashion of Hitler, only a little kinder, though the chances are that they are really' following Charlie Chaplin whose style Hitler quite definitely stole—amongst a lot of other things. Now this novel departure of the Loyal Regiment may mean much or nothing, but probably the former, for it is clearly a revival of the struggle which the English have carried on against the beard and the moustache from the earliest of times, Prior: to the Norman conquest, save for aged men, haiti on the face had gone completely out of fashion, and in the Bayeux tapestry Harold and his fighting men have their chins
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.