POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

"» Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura: "Italy cannot be pampered." , * * -'. ■ . * Hokua: Axis general joins up with Allies in Sicily. General collapse. _* * * Most uncomfortable of the neutrals is ptaid Sweden, victim of an optical i illusion, in which she appears to .be out of the war she is surrounded by. •.■ • » * .'.''*■": - '■■'. Anthony Eden: "I take. very-strong exception to any suggestion that the Polish Goviarnment is in a different position than any other Allied Government in London." • * * * ' ■ UPSET. A prominent British personality back from North Africa told a sad story of Admiral Cunningham. As the. battle of Tunisia progressed the naval Com-mander-in-Chief became .more, and » more depressed, and finally, the informant ventured to ask him what was the matter. The Admiral, who had completed certain preparations, shook < • a mournful head. "I fear the worst, * he said. . "I fear the enemy is not going to evacuate at all." * ■ *•. ,»■.•■.•■*.• FRONT-LINE NEWS OF "C.G." Miss Mavis Morton (Auckland) includes this item in her. letter from London under date 9/6/43:— "By the way, Jean was last stationed in the same village as Clark Gable, and saw him quite often. Fell for his ears in a big way." She mentions one interesting evening when.he sat in the village "local" with the . A.T.S. girls just playing darts, drinking good English beer, and eating bread and cheese. Can you imagine itl • M.E.H. P.S.—"Jean" is a car driver in the A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service). *■ *,'..*. INQUIRIES. ■ M.L. writes: Will you kindly settle an argument between my neighbourand myself? I said Owen Nares was. ■ "Mary Pickford's first husband. He said no. Am I right? M.W. wants to know (1) when was the last time Gladys Moncrieff played "Maid of the Mountains," and (2) if the comedian Ivan Menzies, of the Ox-. ford Group Movement, played in the same company, or if not, in what com- i pany? Will someone oblige? * * # BUGLES OF ENGLAND. Sons of Shannon,; Tamar, Trent, Men of the Lothians, men of Kent. Essex, Wessex, shore and shire, . Mates of the net, the mine, the fire * Lads of desk and wheel and loom, 1 Noble and trader, squire and groom, Come where the bugles of England play, . • Over the hills and far away! Southern Cross and' Polar Star; — Here are the Britons bred afar; Serry, O serry them, fierce and keen, Under the flag of the Empress-Queen; ' Shoulder to shoulder down the track, Where to the unretreating Jack, , The victor bugles of England play Over the hills and far away. W. E. HENLEY •* * * HEARD THIS 'UN? A,news vender in one of the big cities of Italy noticed that after the country had been in the war for some ».'■ time one of his many customers, on ; the wiay to office, was in the habit of grabbing the nearest paper, looking at the front page, throwing the paper in the gutter, and then paying for itAfter about three weeks the Dago salesman who kept the bookstall said: : "What is it for you look,-Mister?" "I'm looking for the death of someone!" "But, Mister, the deaths are the back last page on." "The man whose death , I look for will have his picture on the front page!" ; BARNACLE BILL, Kaiwarra Dump.