There has been no crime reported for several days now. This does not lead me to think the
inhabitants have all turned over new leaves but rather that they are adopting
the same attitude with the Police as with the Tax Collector, who cannot collect
his blood money for he is told “We have our own government now, why should we
pay taxes to the old.”
The villagers are now probably solving their own crimes as the[y]
always have to an extent, without telling the police. Villagers generally have always been little
help in solving crime with the Police.
I did not rise at an early hour this morning as it is Sunday. I lay in bed until I am just in time to get
breakfast if I do not shave then I come back and shave then see to my laundry
for the week or have a haircut. I
usually look into the office to see no outstanding crime has been reported
during the morning. Today I was busy
with the crime resumé for the year.
This morning I was up at 6.30 and in the Station at 7.30 to hand a
court exhibit to my staff to take to court.
I had to hurry back to the billet after this to go with a party to the
rifle range on the Jiftlich track to fire an annual musketry course (disguise
for using up surplus rounds in H.Q.) Not
as many chaps seem to be I am not at all interested in the arts of riled
firing. I am very mediocre a shot and
this may be the reason for my disinterest as I cannot enter into competition
with my mates. At this time of year it
is a day wasted as all the yearly returns have to be done. In my resume of crime for the year one case
under “Other Larcenies” is being very Pimpernelish in the degree of its
evasiveness. I have now been nearly two
days trying to find the error in the figures. |
| Bren Gun source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bren_light_machine_gun |
To night I set about answering my Christmas mail as I am on “Stand by”
duty which means I am armed with a Bren Gun and stay in my room ready in case
anything happens.
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