DUTCH JESTS ABOUT NAZIS

Evening Star, Issue 23861, 16 April 1941, Page 12

DUTCH JESTS ABOUT NAZIS

Innumerable jokes against the Germans are circulating in Holland, most of tkem concerning the propoesd invasion of Great Britain. A Dutchman was sentenced to imprisonment when lie said to a shopgirl behind the counter: “ Attend to those German soldiers first. They are in a hurry to leave for England.” A German officer at Flushing asked a boy whoso was the statue near the mole of the harbour. The boy, a stutterer, replied: “It is m-m-m-meant for Admiral De Ruyter, who d-d-d-de-feated the English.” The German officer, suspecting an unfavourable allusion, mimicked him sarcastically: “ S-s-s-so. is that Ad-m-m-m-miral d-d-d-de Ruyter?” Whereupon the boy replied, “ You’d b-b-b-better imitate him and n-n-n-not me.”

German anti-aircraft marksmanship seems not to be hold in high- esteem, and tho Dutch have a poor opinion of the “ invincible ” German fighter force. It is said that an English barrage balloon floating majestically over Holland was shot at by A. A. guns but not hit. Then a squadron of German fighters took off to shoot it down. They failed. “ And what happened with the balloon ?” “ Tt burst from laughing.”—A Dutch correspondent, writing in tho London ‘ Sunday Times.’