POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 27, 2 February 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

Said Joe Stalin: Pumpcd-up Paulas. He was mauled who failed to maul us.

W.R.D.: No, Melisande! The Bcveridgs Plan has nothing to do with the rationing of beer.

There were stings in the tails of the Mosquitoes when they buzzed over Berlin the other day, to "Fatty" Goering's discomfiture. •::- * * COSTLY. • In Caesar's time it cost about 6s to kill a man. The price rose to about £750 during the Napoleonic Wars; to £1050 in the Boer War; and then £5000 a man in the last World War. Estimates for the present war indicate that it may cost the warring countries not less than £12,500 for each man killed. -:<- «■ * • . ''-I ■ YOUNG SOLDIER. Apparently Uncle Sam's Army has its saluting—and other—troubles- too. A man who'd just joined for tra.uiing passed a captain without saluting.* The captain stooped him. .~ "Take a look at me," he said., "Do you attach any special significance to this uniform?' The new soldier looked him . .over, then grinned.

"Why, you lucky dog." he""" exclaimed,, "you've got a suit that fits!"

"RABBITS." Brer Rabbit must be getting rare— Now one and fourpence—carcass bare—• Presented chilled—like winter air.l His pelf is sold for winter wear— • For Flo's flash fancy fur affair; This rodent, rurally despised I So hunted, trapped, and terrorised, Is precious when commercialised!No wonder shoppers are surprised. And farmers, staggered, stand and

stare At VERMIN—TWO AND EIGHT A PAIR! Say, Mr.- Barclay! Are you there? Is this retailing on the square? There's something rather queer somewhere!

H. GALLAGHER.

Island Bay.

FUHRERHAUPTQUARTIER,

Hitler now calls his headquarterslthat lengthy word, and it is from there that the German war communiques are issued. ("General Staff Headquarters" was good enough for the Kaiser.) The Fuhrerhauptquartier is anywhere. It changes in character. It was one-time m a large building in a Belgian town,1 next it was a collection of camp buildings in a forest. On the Eastern Front it is a train; in the beginning the1 special train was parked in an East' Prussian forest. Hitler has a staff oft over 200. Cars are specially made for! him. His own residence car has a bed-' room, bath, office, and conference-! room large enough to accommodate1 twelve persons. A telephone switchboard covers the world day and night.. His Press chief, Dr. Otto Dietrich/keeps going a constant stream of cop-0- day and night from the Propaganda" iVlinistry and the official Nazi news agency. There is never any more Stalingrad for Hitler.