POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

t, BY PERCY FLAGE Budapestiferous. » ♦ * - Public kissing in Italy is only legal at railway stations. ♦ * * Mussolini: "Ciano's betrayal caused me to act like a true Japanese, Samurai, placing honour before everything else and sentencing to death the father of my beloved grandsons." **' ■ ♦ WHY "JEEP"? ■ •;:■"•" An American officer gives an explanation of the term "jeep," applied to fast-moving little cars. He says that it comes from the letters "G.P.," which, he assumes, means that the jeep was intended to be a general purpose vehicle. ■■ ♦ * * 'WAR ATROCITIES. The Archbishop of -York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, speaking on war guilt, said the conscience of mankind demanded the punishment of those who had ordered and committed some of ■ the foullest cruelties and atrocities which had stained the pages of history. Justice demanded that those responsiblp be treated with the utmost severity * * » SKINNERS. The military attache of a foreign1. Power was being entertained in thej City of London, and was shown the various City halls. One evening he was the guest of the Skinners' Company. He was shown' the old hall, with its valuable goldplate, which few other city companies can rival. The visitor was dumb with admiration. When he did find his tongue, it was to say: "What a wonderful home your Skinners have! I would not have believed that your income tax people do themselves so well!" # * * NEW TECHNIQUE. Berlin has been telling Swedish journalists of new methods adopted in bombing London. A special command was formed, led by officers of the Richthofen Squadron, and. as a preliminary, Focke-Wulf and Messerschmitt fighters were sent to test London's defences. Then, in raids, the attackers flew just below the barrage, instead of above it. They used two new bombers—a six-engine type, evolved from a transport, and one with a double fuselage, but fourengine Heinkels formed the bulk of the squadrons. Bombs were claimed as powerful as the old types. * ' * # MAME McCLANCY. 'Lo dear, you're looking better now Than you was when that silly cow Up country last year chased you wild,Though you was gay an' meeken mild. But ole Good Frideys 'ere agen For watersidelins also men, An' girls who love mareens an' such An' us like any dear ole dutch. 'Owever, I 'aye gotter say Good Frideys sometime gets the way Of gettin' wet from 'cad to 'eel An' pubs is closed. I 'ear as well That 'ot cross't buns won't be too 'ot, 'Cause so I 'ear there ain't a lot What gives a pain be'ind me throa* Jest ain't them yeller Japs a goat, # # * MISTAKEN VOCATION. An officer back from Archangel tells a story of barter and exchange there which he swears is true, says Peterborough. : A British merchant seaman went ashore with 10 cigarettes in his pocket. For these the Russians gave him 100 roubles. With the money he bought 12 wineglasses. These he took aboard a British merchantman, where the steward, very short of glasses, offered him- two bottles of. gin in exchange. Tucking them under his arm", he boarded an American merchantman, which was absolutely dry, and swapped them for 6000 cigarettes. Ashore again he sold these to the Russians for 10,000 roubles. With the money he bought two fine skins, which he sold in London to a fur dealer for £100.