DON'T LIKE ONE ANOTHER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 7

DON'T LIKE ONE ANOTHER

d GERMANS AND BLACK SHIRTS The Germans and the Italian Black Shirts, even as prisoners of war, are not popular with the New Zealanders, but one gathered from several returned men that the Germans and the P.lack Shirts dislike one another so wholeheartedly that they have to be h kept separated at all times. If they s’ are not, there is likely to be trouble, s because of the bad feeling that exists a between these two comrades in arms, y i fcmarked one man who had had to a stand guard over a mixed batch. “Both - are cheeky and hard to manage, parrs ticularly the Italians,” he said. “They g ore all quite sure that Hitler is going e tc win the war for them. One German pilot gave me advance informas tion that Hitler was going to have the e war won by this Christmas. The bad feeling that is shown bes tween the Germans and the Italians also exists between the Italian Black i Shirts and the Italian conscripts, and f I it is usually regarded as necessary to ■A keep them separate also. The con--11 1 scripts are usually glad to be captured.' I COMMODORE’S THANKS r . j The following statement was issued by the Acting-Consul for the Netherlands (Mr M. F. Vigeveno) yesterday: 1 The commodore of the Netherlands ’• Indies military hospital ship, Oranje, y wishes to thank all those who so kindly y contributed toward making her stay in the port of Wellington such a pleasant one for all on board.” g g “ 0 BORROWED BREVITIES e Summer suits are now being manufactured from spruce pulp, but probably they won’t try to make fur coats out of fir. Poise is where, in the thick of trafe lie, you develop a short circuit in the y car horn, and murmur, “How interests ing.” s The most optimistic man we know g 1 vas the fellow who bought 5 of those nventions guaranteed to save 20 per n cent of tl coal bill, thinking that he i- ' ’ould save buying coal altogether. - j The newspaper commentator always 1 j has this advantage over his colleague 1 i of the radio: He doesn’t have to pro- - j nounce those foreign names.