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DIARY OF LOCAL "BRASS 'ATS LIKE WOMEN”

EVENTS.

TO-DAY

(September 14).

23rd day of Jemadi-al-awal. Closing date for Entries Motor Cycle Reliability Trial

Vafries Spimming at North Point EMASS

II.K.. Police and Prison, Aquatic Sports VRGA

Tenth Extra Race Meeting at Happy Valley, 2.30. p.m..

OricketR.A.S.CLR.C.... at

Sookunpoo, 2.30 p.13.

SEEING ARMY LIFE AND LEARNING

SOME HOMELY TRUTHS.

Aldershot." Brass_fate," " said

Private Blundabere,, slowly,, (2) He kaits his brow, seeing the word.

Brass ats

"A crime,auggested Private Football-A&SHI 2nd v. Thandorelap hopefully,

185

Football:-A9.H. C.Ath A lat, Carolina Hill, 4 p.m. Opening of Kowloon 0.0. Pari- lion, 4.30 p.motz des

Hockey-Y.M.C.A. R.A.M.O. Whist Drive-Chins Light Power Co., m.

Ell," obliged Private Thunder-

bloke fair muri to see

akes: him, roh The squad of tasty teas, and me

of new-puttees, /

But I'd pawn for is job,

mo blinking - riflo

"I knew one who was in the Plug

C.Ath.A. 2nd Caroline Hill, 8.15"No, Brass ate is like the wo-Street show us, murmured Pri- meu chum. A bloks never knows vite Blunderbore, reminiscently where he is with a brass ab, With R's in the tobacconist line-Nor- some sergeants it isn't easy, but wich way; a big, fat chap, with a with brass ats it's

igh voice. He settled down with a tidy bit. But what a blighter's was Bring 'm a dixie bung full I once knew a brass ab," said of holes and dripping with rust Private Blunderbore, "who was a and a talks in good yer would cure." He gazed intently into the think it was 'all marked silver, and interior of his tankard, which was empty, and favoured his colleague |with ́a suspicious look-

"Theatres.

Central "The Power of Love" King'e: "The Strange Cass of Clara Deans

Queen's ;** Tarzan the Apeman. Star: W. Plane Oriental:Yesterday at Peking." Taiping: "Last Lynne" Garden Dracula." Majestic Skippy."

Tes dance at King's Restaurant Dinner - dances at Peninsula and Hong Kong Hotela and King Restaurant.

Tides-High at 01.50; Low at

11:22

Principal Malls;" Inward-Australia by Kamo

Maru.

Outward: Europe via Mar seilles, Ranchi 9.45 a.m. Australia and New Zealand, Atsuta Maru,

3.30 6.

SUNDAY (Septembar, 28).

18th Sunday after Trinity.

4th day of Jemadi-al-awal. Hong Kong Rifle Shooting Cham pionship, Kowloon Tong Range, 0.30a.m. A

Sen. Clerical

and

elap.

I put things right, (Dennis Dunn writes in Daily Express") continued:

Ave! "E give a perishey," nod ague got out quickly, ashamed like.

ded Private Thunderclap, who was in the same crush some years ago. We spoke al Quarterblokes "quarter-muster sergeants of the Bri- tish Army, one lò a company, four to a combine.

“The fore brass fat sees a lot of waggons, and can't keep his 'ands off, Take off them wheels, be says, and when they do it he grins as if he had drawn a nap band, and says, Just as I thought, mo grease. So the bloke greases 'em, and what with the grit that grease collected the axle wore out and

bust

Well, next day, he were with another crush; and he strolled; up ss you please says: --"Take of them wheels, which they do. “Just na I

According to the Tommy, the Quarterbloke is a pleasant mix- ture of Scroage and Ananias, a kind of company Kreuger. Tom- my regards the Quarterbloke as n species of uniformed tramp with

queer passion for collecting nine bayonets, four dixies, and twelve overcoats. Apart from that they are palve

Quarterloke never gives thought,' says he 'Grease all over any. It is his job to pretide and. them axles, Don't you know it busts them !! He were a oure.""

The

dispense everything regimental, from a carbine to a cora pad.

Timeless War,

Lawn Bowls--Inter-Dept: Com- "Mot arf;" agreed Private. Thun. petition-Sanitary Dept. "A".derclap. Small Units Revenue. Dept. v. Police "B"P.W.D. "A". But with due respect to those

But years of tradition have given Acct Staff two excellent fellows, I must die him the scepticam of a lawyer and (Police green). Acct - B

agreed. I have been privileged to the wild, gay extravagance of a ate a little of what goes on behind Scats miser. Timeless war is waged the scenes, and learn the purpose, between the Quarterblokes and, the of what appears to be the capers a pack of jolly and irresponsible

Football Matches:-8/W.D., 2nd, Team e S.C.Ath.A. 2nd Team at Sookunpoo, 2.15 p.m. and S.W.B., 1st Team e. S.C.Ath.A. Ist Team at Sookunpoo, 4.15 p.m.

Bowleon Golf Club-Mead Shield

for Kowloon € C. Members."

Symphonic Concert at Peninsula Ho.cl, 6.45 pm,

Theatres

King's "Devil's Itlery. Queen's: "Tarzan the Apeman. Central: #Fast Companion."- Star Oh Bailar Behave!! Oriental: A All Quiet on the Western Front

TaipingHigh Treason.""

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant; Dinner Dance at King's Restau-

rants

12.19.

Tides. High at 03.09; Low at

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MONDAY (September 28),

5th day of Jemadi-al-awal. King of Denmark born, 1870. Lammert's Auction, 10.00a.m. Hong Kong Fencing Club meet ing. 3.15 p.m.

10.10. p.m. t

lunatics.

Lieutenant Bayonet, who has had

troops.

Private Penniless reports, with

overcoats-one, ruined utterly. The Quarterbloke opens the game, He his orders counteruanded wire begins by denying it is an overcoat. in two hours and is lividly Reluctantly compelled to admit it marching to a village he doesn't was one, he fakes heart and denics know by a roud which is not there, that it is Private Penniless over- and on arrival is met with so cost; suggests Private Penniless urgent order to submit at once the number of left-foot gum boots in

stole it from somebody. Private. entless shows name under lapel in ink also chit for new coat...

the unit last March, doesn't realise

All those orders are duplicated

all done on purpose. it is

Quarterbloke. staggers, but comes and were worked out beforehand up fresh with forgery theory, Pri- G.H.Q. wants to find out the speed

vata Penniless: "Company Com in which manœuvres can be carried mander Quarterbloke z: “ Strip- out and the time Lieutenant Bature, King's Regulations, Rabelais, yonet can last without going, dotly, and precedence. His back to the wall, unearths disreputable over- Queer, indeed, are the workings

coat from rear, hands same to Pri of the staff and no man can fathom

vote Penniless, who discovers thirly them:

minutes later that he has got his own back in wiexpected fashion?

A straight line being the shortest distance between two pinta, Private Blunderbore and Thunderclap me early

Hobbies,

You get darned good dinners on Sunday," said Private Blunder bore

With strawberrica, grinned

| Lecture by Dr. C. M. Hassel- mann, M.D., UT M. & H to Hong Kong University Medical Society, Private Thunderclap. And theyEalth. Your stuff wasn't farf **Whist"""_and_Bridge Drive: St. levo un alone pretty well gun bad this morning. All ere showed Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, days, explained Private Blunder it to the quarterbloke, and

bore. Kind of peaceful, when a fair tick bloke, can get on with his hobbies,

Theatres

Kingaz Devil's Lottery.!!

Queen's "Tarzan the Apeman

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Taiping High Treason

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and he took a hearty swig of his

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