POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 4

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

A. new American patent provides for a tyre that whistles when it is punctured. * * * Glider "trains" for goods traffic and drawn by aeroplanes, will become common within five years, according to one air expert.

At Castle Amalienburg, in Denmark, the largest and allegedly safest underground shelter in Europe, protected by layers of steel and concrete, six feet thick, has been constructed for Goebbels's-Ministry of Propaganda.

The death was announced in "The Times" (England) recently of Miss Bertha Fanny Haines, aged 94, .;- the twentieth child and only daughter of the late Henry Haines, of Mitcham. -.. .- * ■■.'#"'■ a' .'♦ v"7

<■."■■ FORECAST. Japanese Admiral Takimusa, writing in the semi-official "Tokio Shimbuh," forecasts that no decisive fighting will [take place on the Asiatic and Austra-; lasian fronts this year, as the Allies intend to knock Germany out of the . war before next spring, and then to ■'■"■ concentrate all their might against *a 'Japan.

JOKE. - Not so long ago, the latest Hitler jest v was circulating in Germany. It reads: "What is the ideal cow?" "She must be as brown as Adolf, as fat as Goering, have a mouth as large as Goebbels, and as easily, milked as the German people.": Himmler was npt impressed. * '.* ♦....

LISTEN." A correspondent in the Melbourne. "Argus," commenting on the suggestion that the Allies' should, now that they are fighting on German soil, resort to "frightfulness," suggests that German prisoners of war should be compelled to listen to Bing Crosby's musical wailings. This, the correspondent considers, would be the all-time high of vindic* tiveness, and he thinks that the. Siegfried Line would collapse if the entire stock of Crosby's records were used as ammunition against it. -

* • . . * . '' ' * IN FLANDERS, 1941. ' - A Frenchman's tribute, marking La Fete dcs Morts (November 2) to those whom Britain remembers in the words of John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields." Old friend! For twenty years asleep, Stir not now in thy, grave nor weep; Rest peacefully, thy French comrade Did not forsake the British dead . Amidst the poppies lying deep In Flanders fields.

Behold' By thy white cross we pray . For thee, for thy sons, and the day When we shall see them here again, And with them "Honneur" shall regain, Till then the skies will e'er be grey In- Flanders fields.

rTliose who said otherwise have lied! For \ bleeding France, twice crucified By Ger-jgrtane—and by VichyWill sh^w^th'e.waiting world that she. Did not bcea^^aith with thee who ' died -■'-' %.* o 7'<"7 In Flanders fields 7, w . -- r A+,': --» y -. i j i ,Xi.F.R» : (A French liaison offialr floi;th& last war.) — s^.^-n-:; *■-'■• ' ■• .. * W-ts?-.^ THE CYNIC. -y? On a recent afternoon my friendly was returning from the Public Library with her bright and querulous five-year-old, and when passing.a nearby hostelry, the barroom babble and gabble that to the sidewalk, through the open windows, seemed to arouse the youngster's curiosity. After a little contemplation he 'said inquiringly, "What place is that, mummy* : and what do they do there?" ally, mother in_ormed him that she did not know. Whereupon junior, with an air of disgust, replied, "Sounds . like Parlerment to me." TTTIO J.H.B.