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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 17, 23 August 1940, Page 3

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COMPLIMENT. “Soapy,” Devonport, writes:—Talking of compliments, there’s one I still keep something very precious. It was: “You’re lovely, but the thing I most like about you is that you always smell as though you’ve just had a bath.” < Answer: And had you? ***** BIG QUESTION. “Narrow Neck,” Auckland, writes: — What is the physchological reason for the fact that man is nearly always attracted by and looks for physical beauty rather than beauty of character in the gentler sex? Answer: Knock-knees may conceal a lovely soul, but it’s the well-turned ankle that turns the head.— Old Chinese proverb ♦ ♦ * * WAR DATE. “Sargeant,” Trentham, writes:— Words of wisdom needed. One bright shilling will be won and . lost after you publish date of Boer War. Start and finish, of course. Answer: October, 1899, to May, 1902. Like a flash. • • x Didn’t even have to think.

FLASHBACK. “Achilles,” Auckland, writes:— A violent argument exists amongst several of us as to who sunk the German cruiser Emden in the last war. What ship encountered her and was the C.E.R.A. a Mr. L. A. Sayer? Answer: The Emden caused^ a lot of trouble in the first few months of the last war. Stationed out in the Far East, she made for home on the war’s outbreak, under Captain von Muller, and sunk many ships, including colliers whose cargo she took, while cruisers everywhere searched for her. With the aid of a dummy funnel, however, she escaped them. At last she was caught in the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser H.M.S. Sydney. Alfter a sixhour battle the Emden, a blazing wreck, was run ashore. As for her C.E.R.A. (Chief Engine Room Artificer, we imagine), we can’t help you. Perhaps some survivor can. ***** EDUCATION. “Know All,” Trentham, writes:— A chap I know wants to tell me that I he learns officers in the Army to drive ' lorries. He is only an ordinary private, and I say that no private in the Army learns the officers anything. Answer: That’s what the officers think, maybe.