DO YOU KNOW OF THESE?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 254, 6 January 1941, Page 3

DO YOU KNOW OF THESE?

MR SECRECY HUSH HUSH He's always got exclusive information—very private, very coufulential.—He doesn't want to spread it abroad but lie doesn't mind whispering it to you -and others lie meets. Tell him to keep it to himself. MR KNOWALL He knows what the Germans are going to do and when they are going to do. He knows where our ships are. He knows what the Bomber Command is up to. With his large talk he is plaj r ing the enemy's game. Tell him so. MISS LEAKY MOUTH She simply can't stop talking— she goes 011 like a leaky tap about the Avar. She doesn't know anything, but her chatter can do harm. Tell her to talk about the neighbours, MISS TEACUP WHISPER She is a relative of Mr Secrecy Hush Hush and an equal danger. Everything she knows is so important that it must be spoken in whispers all over the town. She is one of Hitler's allies. IT she does not know it, tell her (in whispers). MR PRIDE IN PHOPHECY Here is the marvellous fellow who knows how it is all going to turn out. Nobody else knows but lie does. He's a fool and a mountebank. Give him a look that tells him what you think of him. MR GLUMPGT He is the gloomy brother who is convinced that everything is going wrong and nothing can go right. He is so worried by the enemy's strength that he never thinks of ours. Tell him to cheer up and shut up. Tell These People to Join New, Zealand's Silent Column —the great body of sensible men and women who have pledged themselves not to talk gossip and rumour and to stop others doing it. LONDON RAILWAYS IN WARTIME

The bombing of London by t,he Germans lias necessitated the closing of part of the city's vast subway system. London Avas the first, city in the World to feel the need of subwayS. Construction of the "Underground" there was begun as "early as 1853, when London was already the greatest city in the world. Its first subway was less than four miles li.ong and merely served to connect two important railway terminals. To-day London has more than eighty miles of Underground, serving all of its far-flung districts. Booking offices or automats for tickets are usually at the street le\*ei and passengers descend to stations by elevator or escalator. The fare depends on distance- and tickets cost as little as one penny. London's subway trains arc shorter than New York's, but the ears are much more compact and streamlined. Kxeept in one or two cars on each train, smoking is permitted everywhere. There are only a few extra tracks for express trains, but so-called "non-stop trains'' omit certain stations ai. rush hours. Kven during peacetime-, London's subway does not operate between 1 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. The Underground was the salvation of London's congested peacetime traffic; now it has become of great value as an air-raid shelter. Madrid's and Barcelona's subway stations and cars served as homes for many during the Spanish Civil : 1 -:<ep-l;"-re!!ed U.nd-nr-