POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Italians have a new. name for Malta. They call it "Isola del Diavolo"— Devil's Island. • •. ■» «- * Another burning question: "Shall it be 'scorched earth' on the edge ol the Caucasus, or blazing oil?" * * * Charlie Chaplin: "What Communism is, I know not, but if it makes such men as are on the Russian front then we should respect it." !,* # * ! Believe it or* not, all cattle driven through the streets of Wallaceburg (Ontario, Canada) must >in future carry red tail-lights at night. * * * GIVE OR GET. Dear Flage,—According to "Crowbar," the Scot is a poor "giver." Can "Crowbar" explain why Otago, the Scots' settlement, has second place in the present appeal for patriotic purposes? ME AN' SCOT. *.* * r BEAUTY. ' Girls between 17 and 22, who are members of Hitler's Association of German Girls, will: in future be organised in Glaube and, Schqenheit (Belief and Beauty). Berlin wisecrack: These girls are the only people who believe in their, beauty. , - ■ ■ , ■.•■■; ■■•■:• *■'; ■' * - ■."..■ ' # ._ ■; .■•'.;■ OVERHEARD.IN A WELLINGTON BLACK-OUT.' .: :/ First voice: "I knew a man who lit a match to see if he had blown the candle out" -j, ■ : ...-.-■■''■» Second voice: "That's nothing. I knew •• a man who lit- a-candle-: with- a match to see if he could-find a match to light the candle with!", \ Lower Hutt. •■ ■-■ ■' -■ ■*.- '.•■*•'■:* : -- ...-.' SUPERFLUOUS. ;;■■] There ought to be a law -forbidding generals in the field from - ; closing their communiques telling how the; foe is licking them with the statement: Our forces are inflicting severe: losses on the enemy," comments a. Frisco "Chronicle" editorial. It d^es not tell us anything; everyone knows that troops on the offensive suffer losses. And it sounds too much'like the small boy retreating from the battle- with black eyes and battered nose bragging of the punishment he inflicted on the victor. Generals in all the armies ol all the nations have been guilty. It grows tiresome. :,• .. ■.-..< . , ■ *' * ' ■*■■■.'.•,..'"■ - BLITZ-SKITZ. The last subterranean blitz ; Gave the Duke and the Regent the ■ "splitz.'V .■.;.• ■•-.:. ■ . There's rents where you enter . . The old Civic Centre • ■ .;■ • And "splitz" round apout the "exitz. With cracks in the ceiling The Council is feeling ■ ■ . It's wise to be doing a "flitz, Vi „ And when you look over the,"citz ■ It looks like a.visit from "Fritz"! '■.... .' ■.■•■ :-' : H.G. - . ■■'■■»■; ♦ " ■"■■■'*■'•■'■. ';.,"■;' ."; l HOT AIR! >;■ The Berlin radio claimed last month that Nazis were, using refrigerated tanks in the Libyan-; desert. .British armoured vehicle officers labelled it "a hot weather story." -They said that the same yarn circulated in Egypt; last summer, and recurs' every time temperature reaches 120 degrees. Captured German tanks, the officers added, have fans' but no refrigeration plants. The nearest thing to air conditioning in tanks is offered by American models, which have air-cooled engines. Another story exploded by the British was the one about the Germans training for desert warfare in. hothouses-in Berlin with big fans throwing sand, to produce desert conditions. The Nazis get plenty of training,, prisoners have reported, but not in hothouses.