GRIM MEMORIES.
BRITISH LEGION BANQUET. PRINCE- WITH OLD COMRADES. LONDON, March 0. Members of the British Legion to the number of -1000. with their old uniforms on, at the Leicester Conference, tendered the Prince of Wales a great “Elanders Banquet” iast night. The menu included bully lieef, plum and apple jam, and ration biscuits, and the Prince declared that nothing could lias e pleased him so well. He saL amid scenery which depicted wrecked farms, woods, ammunition dumps, barbed wire, and other wartime reminders, while an imitation obsenatiou balloon floated overhead.
A Q.M.S., seeing the Prince trying to bite through the iron rations, was ordered to find him a drink. The Prince smoked plug tobacco in an old pipe, which it was stipulated must be .iguted by tinder, but lie failed to do mj. and pleaded for a match. Explosions and flashes of vivid light helped to deepen the realism, until the smoke tilled the hall and the voices became hoarser, whereupon there was a new issue of “rations.” A “German soldier” was dragged for cross-examination in front of the Prince, who was speechless with laughter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 March 1927, Page 7
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186GRIM MEMORIES. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 17 March 1927, Page 7
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