BEETLESKRIEG
[By WHIM-WHAM.J
The German radio claims . tl ’ a h t . tl^. are adopting a new “abominable - that the Royal Air Force hasdioppedbags containing Colorado beetles in Germany, to destroy the potato crops. The story is denied, in Britain, where it is explained tha * German crops are already infested.—Cable news item.
Oh Fuehrer, mein Fuehrer! The Beetles come
hailing, . _ . . Bags-full and Bombs-full all over die ReichCreeping and crawling, the Harvest assailing Churchill’s sixth Column beginning to strike I
Beetleskrieg! Beetleskrieg! Terror from Britain! , i' ’ ’ Barbarous Albion’s latest Attack! _ What shall we do when the Harvest is batten Down to the -Stubble,■ all-ruined-and- black?
What Spirit of Evil, what mad Animosity Has prompted-this entomological War?- - insects conscripted to wreak no Atrocity iViler than any committed before.
Goering. good Goering! Send forth an Armada Laden with Creatures that wriggle and crawl, Robjbers to rifle the Englishmans Larder, Cockroaches, Earwigs, and Beetles and All. Let.. Goebbels-grubs batten on Britain tomorrow, And Ribbentrop Weevils alive in their Nests: These Beetle-besprinklers shall learn to their Sorrow How richly the Reich is provided with rests.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 5
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