NIGHT OUT
PRINCE ENJOYED IT BEEF AND HAM. WASHING IT DOWN. London, March 7. Clad in battlefield uniform, 4000 members of the British Legion attending the Leicester Conference, tendered the Prince of Wales a great “Flanders Banquet” last night. The menu included bully beef, plum and apple jam, and ration biscuits, and the Prince declared that nothing could have pleased him so well. He sat amid scenery depicting wrecked farms, woods, ammunition dumps, barbed wire, and other wartime reminders, while an imitation observation balloon floated overhead.
A QM.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 lighted by tinder, but he failed to do so, and pleaded for a match. Explosions and flashes of vivid light helped to deepen the realism, until the smoke filled 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.—Sun Special.
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Southland Times, Issue 20146, 5 April 1927, Page 8
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182NIGHT OUT Southland Times, Issue 20146, 5 April 1927, Page 8
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