Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — “As You Were” Defined. [ARTICLE]

“As You Were” Defined.

A Britisa officer who has just returned from German East Africa tells an amusing of the Askari recruits whom he was training. Mistakes in the drill were frequent, and, in consequence, ‘‘As you were” became an order rapped out, with increasing severity of expression. Later the officer overheard a conversation between tw’O natives tn the squad. “What does our officer meah by ‘As you were?'” inquired one Askari. “/Asuwer? replied the other, ‘is a word the Englishman has invented,for When he warits to say “I am sorry, I have made a mistake.” ’ ”