OFFICER OF GUARDS
ASSAULT ON POLICEMAN. LONDON, May 8. The Anzac of history whose officers threatened with inspection by a C.O. begged tearfully not to be called Bill, will read the following story with mingled amusement and mayhap bitterness at memory of “that saluting business.” A bobby, that mainstay of civilian peace, actually had the temerity not to salute the Royal Standard. He was on duty in Piccadilly, where, as all the world knows, traffic control is no soft job. It is alleged that an officer of the Guards struck the policeman with his sword for failing to salute. As far as the officer of Guards is concerned, the competent military authorities will, no doubt, deal with him. But the public has a right to know what authority, if any, a military officer has over the civilian police. Had the officer had any grievance he had no business whatever to use force to the policeman on duty. At most what he could justly have done was to complain to the police authorities.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 June 1923, Page 8
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