Mistaken Identity

Northern Advocate, 19 November 1941, Page 4

Mistaken Identity

The British sense of humour shines i up in unexpected places. No one; would expect to get much fun and j laughter out of an air warden’s jib 1 in London, but apparently it can be j done, according to a letter from an; air warden to a friend in Christ-; church. "We get many laughs,” he| writes. "Wardens in the next post! saw some parachutes descending and; immediately gave chase. The ‘ over fifties ’ soon gave it up; but two younger men reached the point of landing just before the parachutes made con-tact--and saw they had been running towards two parachute mines, the most devastating device yet dropped from aeroplanes; and they fell flat just before the explosion. Although till buildings over a wide area disintegrated. by some chance the wardens were only shaken. They had to buy beer for the rest of the post.”