NAZI JOURNAL'S JEERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22930, 7 January 1938, Page 7

NAZI JOURNAL'S JEERS

BRITISH ARMY COMFORTS u . li T—BEDS IN SENTRY- BOXES , ■ ' >..■ ' ■ . , [FROM OUR OWN correspondent} ?: LONDON, PecL: 18 Sarcastic references to the cofiifoptr provided for the British soldier; who is characterised as "Herr- *' illustrate a number of Schwarze Korps, organ of the'Kazi Black Guards! • * . ■v 'Knapsacks,, it suggests, will filled •with helium gas, to make them'lighter, and silencers are to be fitjed to rifles so that the reports shall not halouder than ten decibels. ' i V J J A drawing of a drunken ''Tommy" has the caption:— "More attention is to be .paid..to the liquid nourishment of Herr Tommy. It is intended to give him a good rum ration as often 'as the FaSfcist danger is debated in the Commons, that is, 'three to four times a day:" Only, crooners will be .allowed .to become sergeants, the Schwurze Korps ;-i: adds, and suggests, that shouted commands are a thing of the past.", " An illustration shows a sentry-box. laid "horizontally,' and in it a soldier stretched comfortably at full length. , fit Is planned," says \ the paper, * "to fit' suitable equipment in thesentrvboxes." After saying that. "Lights Out I ', will be postponed in future until 6 a.m. and soldiers who wish" to come in still later may just drop a postcard, the Schwarze Korps concludes. . " "In case of war the Strtt£'will . guarantee, as it has always: dona; '.thai other nations will be sent to theffrofafc. The English gentleman recruit has pe> mission 'to hsnd fn his notice if ,b? ..*>V does not 'like being a soldier