CUTTING IT SHORT

War Wit, Volume 1, Issue 5, 1 June 1941, Page 13

CUTTING IT SHORT

This is how a London business man deals with people who wish to tell him all about their experiences in the overnight air raid. He has had printed ready to hand to loquacious people a form on which all they need do is to fill in the blanks and cross out (a) or (b)(. This is the form:— We were awake for .... hours altogether. At one time there were . . . . bombers right over/our house. They must have dropped .... bombs over our way. I heard .... (a) bombs drop in the next street, (b) bombs drop right close to us. . I saw .... bombers brought down by our (a) A.A. guns. (b) fighters. - • ( ' One of them just missed our house by (a) two feet, (b) two miles. It was the worst raid I have ever (a) experienced, (b) read about. The searchlights (a) caught them every time, (b) couldn’t get them at all. I think our air defences are (a) simply wonderful, (b) N.B.G. Everybody commented on my (a) calm bearing, (b) “wind-up.” I was (a) awake, (b) asleep the whole time. I am just getting (a) used to this, (b) fed up with this air-raid business. * * * Hitler said he won’t abandon Rumania in her hour of trouble. That was the . end of Rumania.