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September 10, 1940.

By Walt Disney

MAGAZINE · PAGE.

OUR LEAST-KNOWN

CORPS IS

Toughest

Empire's To

Regiment

ΟΝ The Abyssinia-Kenya border, the Italians have had

their first fierce taste of warfare against the toughest, most colourful Colonial regiment of the Empire, the King's African Rifles.

Although superior in num bers by ten to one, the Italians found the Moyale Bghting very different from the mus sacre of toothless oki men, of women, and children in leisure ly bombing raids over Ethio pian villages: a change from the days when they squnited behind machine-guns and hosed lend into onrushing native spearinen.

Brothers, fathers, husbands. of the dead are now in the King'a Afriend Rifles-no longer wild tribesmen, but dis- ciplined soldiers in cruck units, armed with weapons as power- ful as those of the enemy, led by white offleers experienced in military operations over desert, swamp, mountain, and jungle.

In Moyale were met usembered the burned-out villages

of Parlare Italian: cumpargne

Du Muyale garrison fought on

Te more lino two weeks until theu water supply was exhausted

were

ordered to

Thuy withdi no after inflicting bravy casualties on the enemy, and it was the Brst time since they had been sworn into the regiment that thar Abyss but askari were loth to obey a PORN- nand. They retreates! reluctantly

THE

★ ★ *

THE King's African Rities were formed 36 years age- and have been fighting ever Minec

MIN Surualis. matter 2:0 badly Traped Zanzibar pra ters

ן

The main weapon in the artmoury WTON rusty machine-gun which Tad been taken werran Afrion by Stanley on his amarch for Living- stope

Captain Lugard represented the Imperial British East Africa Trid. ing Vompany, and had Government Authority to draw up o frenly with The local chief, M'wangen, an as-

villain, scrupulous

who still-d loyalty in his men by shooting them if they retreated

Lugard built stockade and walled for reinforcements. When they artived he pacified M'wanga and fought with the chief's men agustat the marauding Arabs

I was in steall force, known then as the Uganda Biftes, which formed the human of the KAR.

Grandsons of the girl teenus VER NEVTR TRON w 11% 15e regiment

FFICERS

the KARay that there are t beetjer, braver native solders Thaarfi The Nakur

IN

Kladu

The 421 192

shot- d lon hlt puttees, Farudolier Zapter Even the Tetorets

and taxanthi,

goatskins and brows w of the Kamal'

When the tourut pots op Ex pected of four years hus Bronxes Ins wife tebanal Hadl 1 ts pay of about 12 a month spl to her

He usually marries a second, wite wheels he has settled donwar at tive depu, pariralay a the Swoluli Kit hom the coast

When his flist wife has learned. to dress with aut sucking the best- Carl square she joy him, and th Two wonten tat bound,

stud the roeptast, by there a trained, engre soldier, live together in military quarters, mbie or less in harmony

When their standard bearer. ebony lare gleaming under his

brazlet black-tasseled carries the Colours on verenimial purudes, a few lines of embroidery

cirst recal his

hundred NKITPRISÉES

the 111

desert, forced marches wayruss waterless wastes, and more modern Rights against reading Arub

Narungano, Nynnigan, Afrien 1914-1918," reads the battle hours lettering tirs flog.

Live

The K.A.R.a began to take form in 1890, when Britain and Germany signed treaty dividing Eastern Equatorial Africa into zones of InDuence.

a

Uganda went to Britain, and few weeks after the signing a Captain Lugard, from London, arrived at Kampala, the capital, leading a force of fifty Sudanese.

EVERY part of East Africa, every

race, sends recruits to the regi

11.

There

are Abyssiniana,

Kavi- rondas, Gabos, Summits, Man- jenus, 'wezi, Mubehu, Yau ur Ashows,

a progressive tribe from Nyasaland. Atongia, powerful swimmers from the shores of Lake

Nyasa, Angonis, believed 10 be descendants of the mut.nous Zutu impl who broke away from Chako's rule in 1825, Masuis, tall, brond- shouldered natives who drill like black Guardamen, Nandi, Nubis, Mkambas, Swahilis,

and Wakedia.

Wamljemas

WHEN CIVIL

FOR

You see him stepping along

Whitehall, in his sober. suit, his black hat, his un- changing air of neatness, cir- cumspection, and restraint.

You make a rough guess, and say to yourseit: "A Civil Servant." You go your way quite unstirred.

But the man you have seen is the latest link in a chain of deve- lopment which was already old nine centuries ago.

Before William the Conqueror swept his sharp-prowed galleys ashore on Pevensey Buy a rudi- mentary Civil Service existed here.

In the 12th century the Ex- chequer first and most important branch of the Service-was settled quietly in the Palace of Westmins

With, doubtless, a sigh of relief, the worthy clerics dropped the

By

JOHN

DRUMMOND

If every solder poke his own Blade the parade ground would drive sergeant-majors Prazy

Each recruit has to lower Kiwital and

Minattering of English

In prace me the KAR rover The five deperdenetes - Somalilood, Nyland, Kenya Colony, Uganda and Tanganyika an area of about HOO 000 Muere inides

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*

[ECHANISATION began as long age as 1830, when the pic- ituresque curael made way for six- wheeler forries mounted with machine-gun, and hauling trallers with burths which contained water, petrol and oil supplies

Normal strength is five baltalions and the Somalilated Comel Corps, birt, by the end of the last war, he regiment had 38,000 men M 22 baitalions.

WALT DISNEY.

FUNNY SIDE UP

By Abner Dean

CASE FOR AUNT EMMAS, READACHE PRISH

"Sorry, tady we're all out of moth balls!"

This War Calls for ADID YOU

Plain-Clothes V. C.

THIS is an Everybody-in-the- Front-Line war. 11 calls for

some new thinking about rewards and medals.

Up to the Crimean and Boer Wars the matter was simple. An army went away to fight. As the war progressed, afterwards, individual acts of great courage and gallantry were recognised and rewarded. Some even earned the Victoria Cross.

In the last war it became more complicated. Though it was by no means an "all-in" affair, civilians were called on for behind-the-sernes war work. They were rewarded with

civilian decorations,

To-day civilian war work brings many of the perils oƒice res served for the soldier, sad or, and airman. Police, fire- men, both regular and auxiliary, and A.R.P. workers are doing front-line joli.

Workers in such obvious targets as munitions factories know,

and are resolutely facing. their special danger.

We can look forward to hearing, with national pride, of deeds of valour at home, of initiative against the enemy. of sacrifier for a neighbour, by plain Mr., Mrs. and Miss. Those deeds should be rewarded, and I am going to make a statement which I hope will not be considered unkind or unjust.

The O.B.E. will not do.

Holders of the O.B.E. from the last war include a great many patriotic people who gave time and unstinted effort to help the men who did the real fighting.

But it must be stated that to the average person the O.B.E. is associated with membership of a committee or post in an administration, It is not full-blooded.

To-day we have the need for a new order—a civilian Order of

Courage. It should go to the men and women who knowingly brave death for their country, though not carrying their country's arms.

Lester B. Wilson

SERVANTS BID

THEIR JOBS

now-heavy treasure chest in the great Abbeyond awoke one fine And that...a morning in 1303 to cerlain Robert Fodellcote, having bribed the monks, had stolen tho chest and all the nation's money in

it.

Perhaps you remember the storm": which broke when it was proposed to employ women in the Civil Service? Well, there was a similar storm in the 14th century when laymen were introduced.

service Before then the entire had been in the hands at the clergy and for a good reason, When higher officer did not become available, a servant could be ap pensed, if a parson, by promotion

In the Church; but if he were a layman the King had to give him money or land!

At this time the only payment made to Civil Servants was their board and lodgings... but so

existed many opportunities

of making a little "on the side" that the appointments were customari- ly sold to the highest bidder.

Some will find curious ro“ semblance between the methods of the Exchequer in the 14th century and the methods of the Treasury. .:to-day.

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There is. record; of Jan account

which was presented in 1207 and `was still not qudited in 1827..

The Customs is an ancient branch of the Civil Service,

The way with Customs was to farm them out to the highest bid- der. A speculative merchant would

polld pay a ld lump sum to the King for the year's Customs ro ceipts on a particular article. And there would be another Civil Ser vant keeping a, close record of how much he took, so that the price could be put up the next year.

EOFFREY CHAUCER, com- monly called the Father of English Poetry, held the office of Controller for the Great and Petty Customs and was whipped out of the job, quite abruptly, when cor- tain shady transactions were vestedi

WONDER?

Why Baking Powder Makes Cakes Light Baking powder may be con. sidered as

a chemical sub. stitute for yeast.

When yeast is used, the microscopic yeast plants cause fermentation in starch and sugar solutions. One of the products of this fermentation is carbon dioxide or carbonic

acid gas. This gas forms countless little bubbles in the dough making it swell up or "rise," and food baked from the dough is light and porous.

The use of baking powder in place of yeast likewise causes carbon dioxide to be formed, producing a similar the bread- porous quality in stuffs. The baking powder process, however, differs from the yeast process in that yeast works slowly, depending upon the growth of tiny microscopic plants and the resulting fer- mentulion to make the gas, while baking powder produces the gas quickly as the result of chemical reaction between the ingredients in the powder.

bo

not

All baking powder contains bi- carbonate of sodo (commonly known as baking soda). In addi- tion to the soda, which is an alkali, baking powder also contains an acid-forming ingredient. This may of tartar (potassium cream bitartrate), an acid phosphate, or a compound of the alum group.

Starch flour or some other inert ingredient is commonly added to the baking powder in manufac ture to

prevent the acid and alkali from acting prematurely. Thus the active ingredients de pro combine chemically until, they are made wet by the moisture in the dough, whereupon the alkali and

acid react and

carbon dioxide gus .is released...

Dough may also be made to rise without the user either of baking powder or of yeast, simply by jeg mlela baking soda and, sour milk. The sour milk contains lac- tle acld, the result of fermenta- tion, and this acid reacts with the alkall to form the desired bubbles of carbon dioxide gas.

There are not many so-called on the "alum baking powders"

The alum has very generally been replaced by an- hydrous sodium aluminium sul- phate.

—W. P. Keasboy.

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