NOT IMPRESSED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 155, 15 September 1941, Page 6

NOT IMPRESSED

"AUSSIES" AND PAMPHLETS

A Te Aroha resident has received a pamphlet addressed to Australian soldiers and dropped by a German pilot when flying over British troops in Egypt. It reads:— t "AUSSIES.—After Crete disaster Anzac troops are now being ruthlessly sacrificed by England in Tobruk and Syria. Turkey has concluded a pact of friendship with Germany. England will shortly be driven out of the Mediterranean. Offensive from Egypt to relieve you tolally smashed. You cannot escape. "Our dive-tbombers are waiting to sink your transports. Think of your future and your people at home. Come forward —show white flags and you will be out ojf danger ! SURRENDER !'• The pamphlet, which was sent by a soldier serving with the Australian Forces to his sister in Te Aroha, is of poor quality paper. The sender has written on the back : "The German is certainly a sublime optimist if he really thought anyone would be tempted by such an appeal to exchange this lazy and informal, if monotonous, life here for the. dreary existence oif a prisoner of war—quite apart from all the reasons that brought us here—and our vast pride in ourselves and definite contempt for him as a fighting man. "When Germans and Australians have mat at close quarters, the Germans have been particularly eager to surrender," concludes the writer, who has served throughout the siege of Tobruk.