FRENCH ARMY TO ABOLISH "K.P.'S"
"Kitchen police" and all other domestic aspects of the military career are soon to be abolished in the French army, according to persons close to the War Office. French soldiers will henceforth never stoop from warrior-like dignity to such tasks as peeling potatoes. All barracks will have automatic machines for cleaning and fixing vegetables. _ Cleaning and' scrubbing will be taken out of the hands of soldiers and put into- those of charwomen. .
A clock has been invented to turn 011 automobile parking lights half an hour after sunset daily, irrespective of the changes time that the sun sets through the year.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1928, Page 9
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