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Oct 5th
about this time I had been acting as Corporal of the guard and nothing unusual occured until 10-45 pm when the guard was called out by one of the officers who came along revolver in Hand, we turned out with our rifles & fixed Bayonets & marched towards where the Police stopped we came across a party in the road of three of the Police with 3 officers in Front of them pointing revolvers at them there was a sack in front of one of the police, I was called on to search the prisoners for arms, I found one revolver & cartridges on one of them & I was told to march them to the Guard tent, they were full the noo of Champagne which they had stolen from a store they had a sack half full of bottles of Fiz we went & searched their quarters & found some more hidden in all sorts of places. needless to say we did not give it all up in fact one of the guard got quite shickered & had to say he had malaria which excuse got him off a serious charge such as drunk on Guard
Oct 6th
The Police were tried, one got his stripe taken & the others got C.B & lost their jobs
Oct 7th
drill on square etc
Oct 8
same old thing
Oct 9th
go out to Ratabal Pass where we have two sections on outpost duty with rations I have