The Tories ought to be strong on such things, but their message was being lost in the taxi-chit paper-chase.

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The name came from their billet, often referred to as the Hash House, where they'd eat their monotonous corned-beef dinners, and the pastime they came up with was a wilder version of a British paper chase.

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