Ricochets

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 3, 17 May 1940, Page 2

Ricochets

When the waiter slipped, the Oxt soup turned turtle. 11 .*** * » I News Item: “The French are watt', ful.” On the qui Vive la France! | 1 **'* * * r I Increasing- daily: Hitler’s Sprit? Handicap. J t ***. * * i French say Germans have no chant of breaking through on the Wester front. We i-magin-not! I *** * * I z I We are reminded that in the barrack yard the sergeant-major’s wort is law. At any rate it is tactful t give him the benefit of the shout. * * * * During an air raid warning a m

.fainted and was given a nip of brant Apparently he kept his head in t emergency. * * ♦ ♦ “Every great war inspires us wi a stirring song immortalising 01 ideals,” says a novelist. The last 01 gave us “Hinkey Pinkey Parley Voo * * ♦ ♦ The men in the Navy to-day neve go short of their rum ration, we real However, this has nothing to do wifi' that “zigzag course” we so often hear' about. ’ 1 I * ♦ * * 11 ••J I According to a political correspond ent, Goering’s influence in Germany r weakening. Perhaps, the severe m tioning explains why he carries W weight. I »] * * * ♦ “I told my wife that my patie" 1 ' 1 ; was exhausted,” said a man in couHi “and she just laughed at me.” had evidently forgotten it was Ado^ theme song. | a * * * * * e J A recruit declares he doesn’t M. the sergeant-major telling him ex» cl > what he thinks of him, if ° J would leave out the bad languag his sergeant-major is anything J ours used to be, there wouldn* ic much left. .1