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Bogleywallah, May 23,

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Crosse Grain under arrest. have the honour to slate that Major R. Crosac Graiz admits that he wore a false nose on over the world have shown that

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so as the use of false nosca is For, in designing the Bedford my worthy old aunt is dead. that he had a perfect right to do rango, Vauxhall experts studied She has left me a most ex- nowhere prohibited in Army re- gulations. He also states that he overseas conditions at first hand.cellent collection of shekels used it as a convenient receptacle. They learnt what was wanted in trucks from the very men who which will enable me to view for a whistle, which, he points out, is directed always to be car were going to use them.

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WEDNESDAY, Aut. 19, 1936.

HEROIN TRAFFIC

obtained from

Sir. Your obedient servant, A. Chump, Lt.-Col. Commanding, 2nd, Bushwachers,

B. Snooks, Major. A.A.G. Boggleywallah. District.

A.A.G.,

Retires

GRAIN

SERVICE

THIS correspondence concerning the Ma- jor's retirement from the Service is authentic and only the names of people and places have been changed. It ap- peared originally in a corps publication.

cannot be induced to discuss the matter seriously.

A. Chump, Lt.-Col."

Judge-Advocate,

20th Circle.

would respectfully suggest trial under another section of the A.A. viz: Section 40 "Conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline."

A. Chump, Lt. Col. Commanding, 2nd Bushwachers,

J.A.G.,

20th Cirale.

For opinion.

A.A.G..

*

B. Snooka, A.A.G.

June 20.

T is regrettable that there is

I is

it

dealing with acts of this nature. Having regard to the nature of the parade, I am in some doubt as to whether the charge should not be preferred under Section 35, as Treason, I am afraid I coul May 27, not advise trial under Section 40 THE GO.C. requests that you less there is aomo evidence to THE

will be good enough to frame show that the wearing of a falsc a charge against Major R. Crosse nose by the prisoner produced Grain, 2nd Bushwachers, based on effects injurions to good order the conduct described in the and military discipline. Did any attached correspondence. Early of the soldiers show by their con-

duct that this was the case? compliance requested.

C. Gobble, Colonel. J.A.G.

B. Snooks, A.A.G.

Q.C.,

2nd Buchwachers

and saw men

O.C., 2nd Bushwachers, You have often, with that grasp of intellect which dis- HAS this Officer suffered from tinguishes you, laid it down as the sunstroke? Was he sober equity of Providence that promo- yesterday, and is he of temperate tion in rank is always compensat- habits generally, speaking?

Obtain medical evidence on ed for by a corresponding diminu- tion of brain eg. a lieutenant of these points. fair intelligence develops into a

B.O.

A.A.G., dull captain, a stupid majer, an

June 4. Imbecile culonel, and an idiotic

June 20. general. I am determined to part

CONSIDER that a charge with no more of such intellect as

I ander acction 142 Army THE G.O.C. distinctly heard

in Major, I possess and am therefore going:

Act viz:-"False Personation" it is the manner of my going.

Boggleywallah, May 26. would be most suitable for the Grain's company laughing. Can which may interest you. I have,

Charge sheet in duplicate you obtain any other evidence in support of this among the N.C.O.': as you know, never distinguished SURGEON-Major Jobbs has case.

interviewed Major Grain and herewith.

and men. myself in peace or in war (except states in his opinion the prisoner C. Gobble, Colonel Ogi, J.A.G. by occasionally permitting my- self to act with common sense) is quite responsible for his actions. and I feel it only right to clothes previous medical history does my departure at any rate with not point to sunstroke as having affected his mind. Major Crosso distinction.

Grain has always been, to my THE GO.C. cannot imagine 'knowledge, strictly temperate.

A. Chump, Lt. Col.

why you wish to charge

section. Why not section 16 Commanding 2nd Bushwachers, Major Crosse Grain under

viz:--Conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman?

To-morrow is the year's big

parade.

a

*

*

JA.G.,

20th Circle.

June 4

B. Snooks, A.A.G.

B. Snooks, Major, A.A.G.

A.A.G.,

June 22.

GROWTH

Striking indication of tho

UPON inquiry I find it un- desirable to seek inquiry in growth of the heroin traffic

this direction. Major Crosse locally is forthcoming in official I have provided myself with

this Grain, though unpopular with the statistics

the false nose, exceedingly long and

senior oficers, is undoubtedly ca- exceedingly red, adorned with two

tremely popular with the younger Superintendent of Imports and very lifelike warts. Wearing this O.C., 2nd Bushwachers.

officers of the regiment and the Exports, to which We gave false nose I intend to march past

Boggleywallah, May 26.

men. There is a feeling I find, publicity yesterday. These show the General. I shall be careful

amongst the men, that their not to put it on until the battalion THE G.O.C. cannot conceive that during the first half of the is formed up at the saluting base,

any reason for Major Crosse

laughter is the principal cause of Major Grain's trouble. I have present year no fewer than 764.when, as commander of the lead- Grain's conduct other than that

HERE appeared to me to be reason to believe that, if called 978 heroin pills were seized in ing company, with a colonel far of temporary insanity.

too flurried to notice anything, I sympathy with the prisoner's legal diffenties in the way upon to give evidence, the men raids conducted by the Depart-shall be able to carry my project wife the Major-General is willing, if a charge were made out as re- will state the cause of their munt, a figure which compares into execution without being sub- on receipt of a written apology queated. Perhaps I was wrong, laughter was the conduct of the with 654,233 pils for the whole jected to the annoyance of previ. from Major Grain (provided Charge in accordance with section G.O.C.'s charger at the moment

the company marched past. of 1935. If we assume that the ous argument on the question of also that he retires from the ser- 16 in duplicate herewith.

vice) to overlook the matter. propriety.

The General is an

ass; the Colonel is an ass; and the Judge

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From

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B. Snooks, A.A.G.

A.A.G.,

Boggley wallah District.

May 27.

A.A.G.,

Juné 10.

Č. Gobble. Col. J.A.G.

A. Chump, Lt. Col. Commanding 2nd Bushwachers.

JA.G..

20th Circle.

-June-22.-

June 11. HAVE read the charge to the

prisoner. He informs me Please frame a charge against that he will object to the charge Major Crosse Grain under Section inasmuch as he alleges that the 40 ATA.

B. Snooks, A.A.G. A.A.G.,

July 2 Charge in duplicate herewith.

C. Gobble, Col. J.A.G.

to seizures of actual heroin-indifference. I shall let you know AJOR Crosse Grain firmly false nose worn by him was not

that is, in addition to the pills the upshot. themselves, which are not high

in drug content-the figures are

even

more startling.

In the

Ever Yours, R. Crosse Grain.

•

*

whole heroin seized was 83 ounces, whereas for the first half of the! current year the total is no less Sir, than 632 ounces, representing for the

of 1935, the amount of CONFIDENTIAL-DISCIPLINE.

From the O.C., 2nd Bushwachers, To The Assistant Adjutant Gene- ral, Boggleywallah Districi.

Boggleywallah, May 24.

have the honour to report information of the G.O.C.,

an increase, on the basis men-

declines to offer any apology "unbecoming an officer and a chatever as he considers his con- gentleman," indeed it becomes him duct does not require any. more than his own. He has must inform you that I consider stated his intention of proving any sympathy with Mrs. Grab this to the satisfaction of the entirely thrown away, as that lady Court by ocular demonstration. has been hysterical ever since As a defence of this nature might witnessing the march past,, and tend to be somewhat ludicrous I

Chinese Funerals

the

FOOT PROCESSIONS

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July 3. HAVE read the charge to He states that he is prepared to meet it. He desires me to inform you that he will call upon the G.0.C. as a witness for the defence. He

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tioned, of well over 1,500 per for whom imprisonment has no SHOULD not Chinese aldoration. The bill reaches a high intends to prove the G.O.C. was

total.

wearing a set of false teeth, or cent. It has to be borne in mind, terrors whatever. Suppression funeral be simplified?

at all events some false teeth on Foot processions are even more ex- the parade of the 24th May, and of course, that these statistics of the traffic by present methods Many old Chinese customs

that the G.O.C. constantly wears merely represent actual seizures; is therefore impossible. Flog-doomed to die are dying fast. pensive.

false teeth on, and off, duty. He inasmuch as the discovery both ging might, however, prove suf-Viewed in the light of modern knowledge, perhaps it would be

Thousands of dollars are spent on also intends to call evidence to of pills and the drug itself, parti- ficient to drive the small people more desirable if they were all "presenting" to the general public an show that a Staff Officer in Bad-

elaborato spectacle-a spectacle which bonuggah is allowed to wear cularly the latter, is by no out of the business, The revenue dend. means easy, they cannot give any officers are being worked almost But, in common with other Asiatic will be remembered for years and false eye without question,

with which, it is hoped, will bo I presume the prisoner is within. real indication of the mammoth to death in their efforts to cope races, the Chinese eling tenaciusly to coupled the name of the bereaved his rights.

the past and follow blindly the foot- family.

A. Chump. Lt. Col. dimensions which the traffic has with the problem, and, consider stops of their ancestors, even though

The rich man who is so Lavish in attained. One thing is certain, ing the extreme difficulties en- they belong to some long forgotten

the burial of his dead justifies himself 193 by saying that is to the benefit of namely, that that traffic has ex-countered, they are certainly get-j

In the burial, of

their dead, the the poor who are employed to carry panded tremendously in recent ting resulta. But they need Chinese to-day are not far different the various banners, Innterns and

July 4. months. The Colony is being backing up by heavier penaltics from their countrymen of the past drams, and those who make the paper

century. They are pomp and show houses which are inter burned. In the Major Crosse Grain will send flooded with the drug, with the being imposed on all who are from the old iden of pomp and show middle of the night.

In his papers the G.O.C. in Unfortunately, too, often, the willing to overlook the conduct of result that a big Industry has found to be in any way connected and believe that the spending of much money is the only form of giving a

middle class wage earner tries to that officer, and will dispense with

Debts aro sprung up for the manufacture with the traffic. Without ques- man a "decent" burial."

tion, the evil is being encouraged

copy his exsinple.

con-further action. tracted in this manner and cases are of pills. The factories are, as by clever propaganda; but, so

B. Snooks. A.A.G. uncommon in which money Firms In Hongkong, who make it not we have previously pointed out, far as we are aware, the Govern- usually small establishments,ment is taking no steps whatever their business to assist in funeral borrowed to pay for funeral expenses Arrangements--one of them under- remain owing for some considerable to counteract this propaganda, talces to provide brass bands and “re- time. easily moved and hard to detect, despite previous reports to the quisites for funerals and marriages" but latterly qulte a number of contrary. If any impression is and doubtless hires out the same

day.

A to

O.C.,

2nd Buchwachers.

A.A.G.,

more pretentious concerns have to be made on the trafle-and band for either occasion-readily burial among the Chinese is, be M consents to send In his pa

for the good name of the Colony to be incurred. no effort should be spared to

July 4 TAJÓR CROSSE GRAIN this reason, in some parts of China, pers upon being granted leave of been located. The problem

benevolent and provident societies, absence from this date pending re- A brass band costs anything from formed with the object of helping tirement, and upon being furnish- which the authorities face is to wipe the evil out- most rigor. $15 to $20, depending on the number bereaved familles, thrive. These get on the track of the people ous campaign must be initiated or mon in the band and on the dis societies have latterly degenerated ed with a copy of the corres behind

this enormous trade. and maintained. The least that tanco to the burial ground. A cover into associations which provide a pondence in the case.

the Government can de, there-for the coffin is even more expensive, fixed num estimated to be sufficient to Clearly there must be a really fore, is to devise co-operative A presentable one, complete with meet the cost of a not too elaborate

flower trimmings, can be hired for funeral. big syndicato engaged in the methods between all departments, $70 to $80, this fea being understood business. The people usually and not permit the whole burden to include the lorry in which the favour of stamping out the tendency

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for outward appearances, and pro-, Other items such as the engaging venting the funeral from being con- or manufacture are obviously drug once it has found its way coolies, and taxis to carry the fused with a chingay, procession in mere hirelings of bigger men into the Colony..

mourners, have to be taken into con- the eyes of the Westerner,

O.C.

A. Chump. Lt. Col.

2nd Buchwachers, EAVE Granted. Correrpon

"dence "Original" herewith. B. Snooks, Major. A.A.G:

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