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5th October 1916
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Fred Karno

That plus eleven made minus one.

That the Zepp. framework is eyeletted.

Much overpraising of underdone work.

That a "Tommy " calls it " winning " a thing.

That not only geographical frontiers are altering.

That after-the-war programmes should be elastic Of abnormal losses of sheets and ropes on railways.

That not every parts order is for a trial 3000 sets.

That pooled railway wagons do not mix as well as as hoped.

Of a new road linking up Lourengo Marques with tae High Veld.

Of a discreet silence in many quarters concerning postponed holidays.

That the failure of the Zepps is very largely due to the petrol engine., That the all-British assembled commercial vehicle is through its first stage.

Rumours that almost everybody claims to have had a hand in designing the " 'Tanks. '

That the Fowler will not allow himself to be ensnared by old practices at the Aircraft Factory.

—0 That whilst all the French say " Merci " for "Tanks," some Germans say " Kamarad" to them.

That all the steel is wanted for the Huns, but that delivery is effected io instructions other than theirs.

That there has been a clean sweep of the pine woods Hampshire way by the Canadian lumbermen.

That the German armies on the western Front are creaking like an overloaded plank before its final give.

That the inventor of the Haddon vaporizer is the only foreign member of the Admiralty Inventions Board.

Of several tons of scrap-steel castings which were conveyed by passenger train—" On W.D. service, URGENT."

Of an M.T., A.S.C. man, invalided from the Front with ".dynastry," but not the disease of the Hohenzollern variety.

That "Pearson's Magazine" for October contains a further warning of commercial interest about Germany, and should be bought. There's a Dorman engine every hour.

That the Underground Railway will be less hit in the end than the goods-carrying lines will be.

That the Hun thinks a " Tank " a most-unfair weapon, and one must conclude he knows, though the attitude of mind is a cantankerous one.

That as tiramrails cannot at present be replaced owing to the high price of supplies, some undertakers are deepening the groove of the rails by milling, as well as removing the corrugations, and dressing the joints by grinding.

Fred Karno' s Army..

From a Performance at Sea in Aid of the Campaign Comforts Fund.

We are Fred Karno's Army, The Ragtime A.S.C., We cannot fight, we cannot shoot, Whatever good are we ? But when we get to Berlin The Kaiser he will say, Hoch, Hoch, mein Gott, What a Bernard Shaw lot Are the M.T., A.S.C.

Some knuts of Karno's Army Came round by various routes To a little place called Kribi' But they couldn't get cheroots. Yet smokes they had, not half so bad, Made out of toilet rolls, And " fag-ends" found upon the ground Where the 0.0. took his strolls.

We are Fred Karno's Army, No shirker can-you see, Our use on land it has been planned, But not our use on sea.

Yet when old " Croc "* got sandbankod, Oh, what a sight to see, From 0.C. down to Edney They pushed it out to sea.

Wken tbe war is over, If we are left alive, Yeu'll find that. one or two of us Have learrarthe way to drive. You'll hear from St. Helena These words come o'er the sea, 'Herr Lieber Gott, They're a little too hot, Are the M.T., A.S.C.

They shipped us to Divala, And nut us on the road.

We'd nothing but a rough bush hut To serve as an abode.

We did what we were sent for, And now we're on the sea, And it's home, sweet home, across the foam, For the M.T., A.S.C.

Now old Fred Karno's Army Has done its little bit, We're homeward bound to swank around, To yarn as the hours flit. And soon we'll p'raps be parted, Our various ways to roam, But, Oh mein Gott. they'll heavsome rot, When the M.T. crush get home.


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