POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1942, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAdE

So the enemy is trying to pick holes.in the strategy of General Alexander, what! ■.■'... ' ■ * * . * ' * ■ ■ ! It was G. B. Shaw who said that the British blockade, won the (last) war, | but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. * * * I Radio Tokio: "With supplies from i England and the United States, completely cut off, Australia has indeed become the orphan of the Pacific." But ! what about your supplies at Kokoda, brother? . . , . * #■.*■- I DID YOU SAY RASPBERRY? ! There is a shortage of paper, writes a London correspondent, and food.has been restricted. I therefore suggest that your journal should not be put aside, but could be put inside—eaten. It could be printed on rice paper, with, an ink composed of edible vegetable dyes flavoured vanilla or raspberry. It could then be torn up and, served with milk and sugar. •• # * * ' TOO BAD! Hermann Goering is not so happy as he was several months ago. Explanation: the passing of Professor Krummhubler, famous Nazi dietist, recently. The professor had done.a real job for the Reichs Marshal —he succeeded Tn reducing his boss's weight by nearly three stones. But alas! with. Krummhubler called to Valhalla. Goering has been piling up the fat again. The professor had received the Nazi Adler Orden for his dieting pills. » » ■ * CHURCH BELLS. One day England will hear the church, bells again. Their sound may herald invasion or they may, be. silent until they ring in victory—whichever way it is. They will be doing what bells have always done—made history. Many a bloody chapter has been in or out with bells. They were originally considered the' property of the town or of the military, and did not belong to the church or the cathedral chapter. They summoned the soldiers .to arms or sounded the alarm —as they still might do in Britain —and it was only too true that he who controlled the bell controlled the town. '* * ' ■ * CONUNDRUM. Dear Flage,—Re the conundrum, which appeared in the Wellington "Evening Press" so many years ago, my mother, who is in her 81st year, remembers some of the lines, which I send you; they may revive a memory, long sleeping, in others. "I come from the haunt of coot and hern, I'm friend of the lowly savage I'm two. I'm one, I'm more than one I'm more than one, I'm many; . Put this and that together, my son, And take the change, if any. Answer:— "Flax comes from the haunt of cool and hern, \ From it the savage makes his kit; A traveller far from wood and burn His enemy's head he puts in it. AiE.H. *■ * *-. INFORMATION. It is true, "Sling the Hammock," that Lord Louis Mountbatten. .commander of the Commandos, has German blood, in his veins. It came from his father. Admiral Mountbatten, who, at the outbreak of the 1914-18 war. was first Sea Lord, and was then known as Prince Louis of Battenberg. He had dedicated his life to the British Navy, but because of his German origin^— he had been a naturalised British subject since 1868—the Press and a large body of public opinion brought about his resignation in November, 1914. He was a broken man, and for the rest of his life centred- all his hopes on his young son. He relinquished his German titles in 1917. assumed the surname Mountbatten, and was then made the Marquess of Milford Haven.