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...India. It sounded livelier than a collier's future, so off went young Richards to enlist in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was younger than the age he gave the recruiting sergeant, but well set-up and handy with his dukes. He soon got the hang of barrack life, and was enjoying his beer and his "bit of skirt" with the best. He took his part in many a pub-brawl, many a dangerous jest. When an ignorant young officer had him "crimed" for a dirty rifle (which was actually clean) and his attempts to establish his innocence only...
...than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
Historic Smolny was founded in Tsarist days as a finishing school for aristocratic young ladies. Elegant isolation was to produce "a new species of humanity." In bloody October 1917, barrack-like Smolny became the stronghold from which Bolsheviks defied and finally conquered Kerensky. In the ex-finishing school's assembly hall met the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets to proclaim the Bolshevik Government and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. For months Lenin and Trotsky lived and worked in schoolgirls' rooms at Smolny, signing death warrants, decrees and proclamations...
Manuela is convinced that she cannot be happy in the barrack like institution, and although she is recognized by the girls as a leader, she cannot accustom herself to wearing the sack-like uniform and striped tie, to putting her hair into a knot, and to going through the routine of eating, praying, sleeping, and studying like a hundred other pupils...
...advisers") of about 40.000 more. And there is a police force of 20,000 men trained to arms. Commander-in-Chief of the army in India is handsome, grey-haired General Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode. As a cavalryman, he was serving in Burma the year young Rudyard Kipling published Barrack-room Ballads. Under General Sir Edmund Allenby he commanded the 20th Army Corps at the capture of Jerusalem. In 1928 he became Chief of the Indian General Staff, in 1930 succeeded Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood as C.-in-C. His job last week was to keep the army...