Ricochets

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 1, 3 May 1940, Page 2

Ricochets

A Russia ’lection ? * * ’ * " . * * Railway unit for .overseas service: Up guards and at ’em. * * * * * . ' C .Not much sylt in Goebbels’ mudslinging. , ■_ sjc ijj sj: ❖ Theme song to Hitler: “Why was he born so bootyful? Why was he born at all? * * * * There .is no truth in the rumour that a Royal Air Force man has been dismissed from the service for droping his pamphlets in dart form. * * * * Twin boys born in Germany were named Adolf and Josef. It is hoped that by about 1959 there will be signs of the appropriate moustaches. ..* * * * It is reported “from a reliable source” that Herr Hitler is secretly writing his memoirs. We can’t think of any title better than “People Who Have Met Me.” *-* * * There is a rumour that one of the water diviners sent to the Siegfried Line found some truth at the bottom of a well. **• * * Hitler is a coward in the dental chair, says his former -dentist. But he knows no fear when its his army that has to be drilled. * * * * “The average German believes every word of the Nazi propaganda,” says a novelist. He gobbles what’s garbled by Goebbels. ***** Amongst the latest economy hints is the suggestion that we should put our linen handkerchiefs away and use cheap ones made of paper. Atishoo ; paper, we suppose. *****

Giving evidence last week, a soldier complained to a magistrate that every time he comes home on leave, his wife goes through his pockets systematically each night. What one might call a repeating rifle.