POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 38, 13 August 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY.PERCY FLAGE

Cold steel, as applied by the fierc* New Zealanders, leaves Rommel's boys all hot and bothered. * * ♦ Joseph Goebbels; "Germany is fighting for a well-stacked breakfast, luncheon, and dinner table." And somebody to do the washing up? ■ r- * * . ♦ ' One Scot thought that thrift was a fine thing, as he was wearing the boots that had been tied to his wedding carriage ten years before. A message from the south states that rabbits appear to arrive in Canterbury in cycles. It is not stated whether the Government has granted a special licence for the maintenance of tyre supplies. ~ ; ■-..coCKY.'^ ■•••.' . , *•. -;. . ; *--'::. "' :*■.;::. ■;■. ■'.... HARD TO LICK. Rommel says he is quite nonplussed about the correct pronunciation of General Auehinleck's name, but > he, is certain that he is not often-licked. "For ye poosh each oder.dis vay anddat in turn, and den yen I poosh.;- heen* back into Egypt-he jibb." >;- :■■. ■■ Ad. H.1 UNREQUIRED RATION. Gandhi, all his stowny life. Sure has caused a lot of fefeife; - But he'll never stir tip Irtows, Lacking coupons, friends, for f lothra: . ~.:■■ tvad. .■ ..'■■ ■ *'■•'.'• *■■■ .■■ •"■■■■, ■■•. ■ •.. CAPONE. Dear Sir,—Could you please settled an argument for us. I have a. bet on that Al. Capone, U.S. gangster, .who was serving a sentence m Alcatraz. has been, released, and is living at his home in "quiet insanity," as one paper put it. ■;".•'■ .•'■'.■ ■"■.■. ■i • ... ■',■?.■ '" ■: SAPPER W. E. HOLLINSHEAD, Capone was ireleased from Aleatraz some years ago, and later was-report-ed in several pattefsjßS being .trailed by the Income Tax. Department For a considerable tim« now has aot been mentioned, and It impossible that he livina t aS M you have heard, at home, in "<l™#P4&t& result ©this years or hell in. Alcatr&z • . ;,::.«,:■•;• ■*: '- * ; -;,.-: ; y-;--- ■ If I don't get a Govefraeat job,-, Or this-'n'-that, so 'elp me bob, I'll start a ri't like Grand! did, . Though England clamped down on n 1 could *op out an' = inter trams, ; Or dig pertater& (an* no shams), Or drest up in me battle-dress I'd make a real work uv a mess (No funny tricks), an'if, I cant Get^oneuv thfem,:l^©ra j aunt .. Who'll leave me somethmk in 'er will I 'card las' week she's far from il 'Owever> let me get : along- •-" " - Singin' me swanny *iy.et song. I wanter for"to win the nght, Standin' up noble for the right, , 'Elpin' the pore What 'as no spuds, But not the 'eavy drinkin' duds, An' pastiri' women with, no cart Who 'aven't tried to do their part. That sorter thing I won't abear ; While 'ell-fer-lether ploughs the a a An' *Itler knows no mercy *eat .-. . ■ 'Aye you tried this Mgh-rated meat.' ..■; ■•.;"...-V; ■ marines.-:.•'.■;,,;':,• ;;■. ■■■;.- There are marines, horae^marinfes (you go and tell it to them), and, "marines," empty bottles which, were at one time called so because the Rdyal Marines were looked down upon by the regular seamen,; who cohsidered them useless. A marine officer was once dining at a mess table when thf Duke of York saidvto the man in waiting "Here, tak& away these marines,* The officer demanded an explanation: when the ■ Duke■:replied;; "They;havt done their duty, and are prepared' to do it again.";; ■■-, ■ -:'\ :- ■■':.-■