The Turks clung to their trenches with a tenacity equal to that which characterised their defences on Gallipoli, and officer prisoners told us they had been ordered to hold Gaza at all costs.

For an instant the buzz ceased, during which the brown figure with the dark, clear-cut face shook hands with an officer friend and departed.

An infantry officer spy can do littlehe knows nothing of the Staff plans, and cannot get into communication with the enemy at all readily, without arousing suspicion.

[An OFFICER enters, and brings a letter with the great seal.

So the Austrian officer class has a sort of vested interest in the preservation of the place.

" "Do I look like the officer type?"

Jill Marie Haycox (W); 23Nov70; R495433. Officers ball.

Simulated waistcoats, basted firmly to the shoulder seams and under-arm seams of the waist, and cut high to the throat with an officer collar, are liked by ladies with a taste for variety, and are not expensive, as but for a small quantity of material is required for each one.

More than half the rank and file were mere boys; and he could see that they were unruly, almost to point-blank disregard of their officers commands, or the prescriptions of the manual.

I have been told, indeed, my lords, that to some of these officers commissions were offered, which they refused, and for this refusal every reason is alleged but

"The preliminaries were well under way, without my appreciating their significance, until one of my officer escorts explained.

The officers fallout; the first sergeant places himself faced to the front, 3 paces to the front and 2 paces from the nearest flank of the company, salutes, faces toward opposite flank of the company, and commands:

The staff of an officer forms in single rank 3 paces in rear of him, the right or the rank extending 1 pace to the right of a point directly in rear of him.

Susan: An officer gentleman.

"Hon'lable officer giveum China boy 'nother piece blead," suggested Ah Sin.

We had been through it, seen the wards of strapping, handsome, childlike Russians, as carefully looked after by the Hungarians as if they were their own, when our officer guide remarked that in an hour or two a transport of four hundred new wounded would be coming in.

"If you had offered the money to a German officer," I said, and the interpreter repeated the words"if you had offered the money to a German officer hemighthavetakenit.

Thus it is that no young lady, however ugly, need be without an officer husband if she has money enough to buy one.

When all business, both old and new, and the initiation of candidates, if there be any, has been disposed of, the presiding officer inquires of the officers and members if there be anything more to be proposed before closing.

But the young Repentigny felt for Vergor such contempt as only an incompetent officer inspires.

A system of visits to ships by officer instructors for the purpose of affording instruction and for inspection, as well as for the purpose of lecturing, was instituted, and arrangements were made for giving instruction in signalling.

An organization is what its commanding officer isneither better nor worse.

"An' China boy gottee lations, blead an' beer, allee same hon'lable officer gottee jug," continued Ah Sin.

"P'haps hon'lable officer losee lations allee same little dog," suggested Dam Li.

It had been the proud boast of her officer master that he could resist any attacking party and hold the City Royal for the Manchus.