PEEPS AT THE FORCES DURING THE WAR

I.—WITH THE RED CROSS IN HARI-KARI.

How it is done. Making the patient red. Making him cross. The Hospital Orderly. His tenderness. How he treats All My Comrades. Dosing the troops with P.U.O. Surgical instruments being shipped for Hari-Kari. View of Hari-Kari. Interiors.

View of Hari-Kari

II.—WITH THE KNUTS IN BRAZIL.

How they grow. The Colonel. His chestnuts. Mrs. Colonel, a hard knut to crack. Company Officer shelling out deferred pay nuts. Other species. Conquerors. Winning the war. Piling up ammunition. Monkeying with shells. The Serjeant-major’s aunt Sally. A shy one. Cokernuts. Or cigars.

III.—WITH THE W.A.A.C.’S IN THE WEST

The Waacs’ work. Madame Tussaud. Sealing Waacs. Disciplinary action, or whacking the Waac. Toilet waccessories. The honey-comb. Honeymoons. German bees distributing honey. German shells distributing Waacs. The Waacs asleep. Peace at last.

IV.—WITH THE Y.M.C.A. IN MESOPOTAMIA.

The Red Triangle. Making the note-paper. Giving it to the troops. “You had a sheet last week.” Making the tea. Tracking the tea-leaf. Searching for sugar. Needing the Nestlé. The piano at work. Ditto in play. In off the red triangle. The motto: “Closed.”

V.—WITH THE CHINESE IN CHINGFORD.

The Chinese G.O.C.-in-C., General Meno Savvy. Some of his wives. His pig-tail. His blandness. Chinese sports. An opium den. Faro. Moses. Pulling the Walthamstow. Epping the Zeppelin. Throwing the Leytonstone.

VI.—WITH THE WRENS AT PECKHAM.

Coming through the Rye. Regimental March, “Robin Adair.” In Birdcage Walk. Drinking Canary seed. The wings of a squadron. Fluffy. Egging her on. The Nestlé season. Shutting down hatches. Getting the bird.

VII.—WITH THE SCENTINELS AT OPOPONAX.

Picking the buds. A blooming swindle. The smell of the ocean. The smell of Salonika. Catching it hot, Bouquet de Bulgarie. Ottoman olfactives working at a hose. Atta rose. Johann Maria inventing a highly sensitive nose. The lily of the Val de Travers. Fishing for Frangipanni. Back petalling. The Eau B.E.

“A highly sensitive nose.”

VIII.—WITH THE DERBYITES IN THE DARDANELLES.

Sighting land. Landing sites. Achi Baba. A close shave. A brush with the machine guns. Napoo. Shampoo. Epsom salts. Up the straits. Round Tattenham Corner. Lighting the K Lighters. Fighting the B Lighters. Turks trotting. Bulgars bulging. Armenians with harmoniums. Cossacks in cassocks. Giving ’em Dardanell.