POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE The war is costing Britain. £10,000 a minute. That's all. v * * * If, as the R.A.F. would say, it is riot Heligoland, it.is hell somewhere else handy. ■■ ' ■ * * ":. * •.'.-..■' Did you know that men pulled their shirts over their heads for years and years until a woman introduced the much simpler open-front shirt? ' * #■.•,"#: , Admiral Doenitz, U-boat chief, swears that Raeder fakes; official figures about sinkings. Raeder, in turn, complains that he is expected to do too much in the Mediterranean. * * >:.... LET'S GO! " Dear Sir, —In Gunther's "Inside Latin America" I have just come across this comment (page 225):— . ■ , ; "In Paraguay economic affairs take weird directions . . . potatoes, which are imported, are an extreme luxury, and cost 3d per pound." Oh to be in Paraguay . . . etc.! Yours. GRETA HUNTER. * . '* ■ * INFORMATION. [ Dear Percy Flage,—As a reader of your column I think you would be the best person to settle a dispute. The question in doubt is:— In five hundred, if no trumps have been bid, and a suit led, can another player use the joker if he has a card of that suit in his hand? I personally think the joker cannot be used. Thanking you very much. NOT DOUBTFUL. Player with joker must follow suit when not out of a suit, * * * HEARD THIS ONE? A young lad called in at a certain recruiting office and asked if he could enlist. , „• _.-. "How old are you?" said the officer. "Eighteen years," replied the lad. His father, who came with him, said, "I will give my consent provided you accept me, too." > . ' "I, am very sorry," replied the recruiting officer, "you're too old.' The lad, who overheard the remark of the officer, turned to him and said, "What, Dad too old! You are inconsistent." "Why?" replied the officer. . "Well," replied the lad, "I just received a letter from my grandfather who is wounded in Bardia." CUPID-IT Y. We'd love to see the Duce and The Fuhrer Rumbaing hand in hand; 'Or acting the funambulist ■ •' With ropes of pearls about their chest; ; Or playing shuttlecock or bridge, Regarding each a sacrilege; ', Or staging gladiatorial Shows, Punchin? each other on the nose; , Or, set in Axis attitudes, " 1 Let go a flood of platitudes; Or laughing at the name of Sweden ', Because it smells of "Tony" Eden. Lastly, we'd love to see the pair ; Doing a hemp dance in the air. i — FLAGE. * *, '.*■•■■■' NAZI NERVOUSNESS. 1 German nervousness over the pros- ; pects of an Allied invasion in ]the West ; is betrayed by the feverish defensiveactivities now known to be going on in France. According to details which have reached Free French headquarters: ; The guns of the Maginot fortresses are being reversed to point westward. i The German High Command has ordered the formation of special anticommando units. Anti-aircraft defences are being m- > stalled throughout the unoccupied zone. There is to be a balloon barrage ■ round Vichy. ' . In addition, new fortifications are being built on the banks of the. Rhine.