STRAIGHT TALK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 60, 12 March 1942, Page 3

STRAIGHT TALK

PARASITES AND VERMIN BATTLE OF THE PEOPLE London, Marci; S. I C-iowing public indi.uion - • ' '.niessel m Parliament mid the. pre.' ; jat continued black market act.. itieU 1 has already led to a promise of moi d drastic legal action. A further step in; I lhe campaign is a display tn the' 1 Portsmouth Dockyard of an orde:-| I signed by lhe Comman;ler-in-Cb;e i I Admiral Jamex ' ailing on all naval | ■and dockyard men to play their pai: j jin the •battle of the people again.-,! I parasites." ; i The order slates: “Hardly a day’ j passes without decent. men and women being exasperate.-! and in-1 ■ fuviaied by reports of Police Court I leases which give evidence that though! I we have entered the most fateful \ eai j | in our history and sailors, soldiers and I airmen are daily giving their lives To: I l.heii’ country, we are nourishing in our midst individuals aptly described | r< eently as vermin who are not on!;. ' doing nothing whatsoever to help in| lhe war effort, but are thriving in sleek comfort on the proceeds of il-; licit dealing in commodities necessary! to the well-being of the people. Wei can win the battle in this part of Eng-1 I land if all the naval personnel in th '. 'Command and every man and woman I •in the Royal Dockyard will, from now I on, consider it their bounden duly tn] lhe country and the men in the battle areas to report when they have evi-1 denee of parasites at their tilthx work."