LAUGHTER IN EXILE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 12

LAUGHTER IN EXILE.

Tii'ui comes from a journal run by exiled Czechs and Slovaks in Paris—or maybe it i=< in London: — A neutral newspaper man visited the Protectorate. Although the Nazi* pretended that all factories were working full tiriift he did not <)uite l>elieve it. Visiting the Ringholfer Works in Prague he saw, to liis astonishment, that all the haixin were working feverishly. " What do you produce here?" he a»ked. " Commodities for the railway. We work day and nigiit. So you see that it'g a lie that the Third Reich is going to the dog«." That was all the manager' of the work* tared to say. A few day* later the reporter passed the Kinghoffcr Works jiwt as a ne-.v shift was going in. "You eeern to have a lot to do," be Haid to a workman. "Ye«, an awful lot. We supply all I Germany." "Fancy. Then the Germans are speaking the truth wfy>n they s-.oy that their I fa-rtorioß are working, overtime? What d>) you produce i" "Commodities for/.the railway." "Do you mean engine;-, railway carriages, signals and'e'o on? r ' "Nonsense, young man. We produce boards with the inscription: 'This line in flrirPf) indefinitely'."