SHOCK FOR SERGEANT. The sergeant was inclined to be a trifle sarcastic. “You’ll find sergeants in this war much more considerate than they were in the last war,” he said to a batch of newly-arrived recruits. “There will be no shouting of orders. Instead, I will beckon to you with my finger and that means ‘I want you’.”
“Sarge,” called out a P. B. P.. “you’re a man after my own heart, ’cos when I shakes me head it means ‘I ain’t coming’.”
In the Middle East the influx of English-speaking troops has brought forward a crop of signs in “English” on the shops. A shoemaker announces: “For your repairs you can wait.” 'A corsetiere: “Ladies’ Corsets and Udderwear.”
Susceptilility by the Japs to tropical diseases is reported. We now see that the inscrutable workings of Providence, in providing these scourges, had some purpose after all.
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Arawa Guerilla, Issue 16, 1 July 1943, Page 2
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