POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 128, 2 June 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

8Y PERCY FLAGE

That attack of the mosquito subs.' on Sydney Harbour was no more than a spit and run. ■*.' * . * That super blitz Gave Fritzy fits. # * # "An Australian: Guts—an extra gizzard with the capacity to digest reveries, arid turn" them in?o opportunities.' [ # # * Those Russian four-barrelled ma-chine-guns firing 5000 rounds a minute will surely get the enemy parachutists on the wing, and won't there be a blow-out! *' * * EGG PRODUCTION. Dear Flage,—As eggs are much in the news, the following warning in*a London newspaper may be timely:— s "Persons licensed and registered as egg producers by the Ministry of are advised not to attempt any estimate of the probable size of the com-, ing season's output until the process of incubation has been completed." Carry on, Flage! We still find Col. 8 eggstraordinarily interesting. Ever yours, ART. *,*. * . - FOOD RACKETS. Germany also has trouble with tlu racketeers. The German courts are imposing rigorous sentences on black market offenders. Since the end of last year five Germans and two Czechs have been executed and many people sent to prison for long terms. The principal offenders have been found among food and textile dealers. In Germany black market butter fetches between 23s and 25s a pound against a controlled price of 2s 6d; meat, 17s, against Is 2d a lb; coffee, 27s 6d to 555: a goose, 110s; and a chicken, 41s. In France butter is 8s to, 10s a lb, a rabbit 12s, a chicken anything up to 20s, and a duck £5. In Belgium potatoes are sold at Is 2d lb and tea at 765. j* * # MADRIGAL A LA COUPON. (Scanties, panties, bloomers, knickers, eezees, and roll-ons are now subject to the coupon rationing system. —News item.) I gave some coupons to n# love; The day was cold and breezy (They came like manna from above) That 'she might buy an eezee. She shivers by the fire all day, And heaps great lumps of coal on, To keep the wintry blast away— For she had ne'er a roll-on. But now she's warm both day and night, From Monday's morn till Sunday's. The coupons gave her great delight And furnish her with several Sets of feminine attire mentioned at the commencement of these lines. , COUPON CHARLIE.