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WHEN THE WAR WILL ENl> The follow ills' piece of doggerel will probably provide the key to those who are always guessing at it, as. to the exact date marking the end of the present war: — Absolute knowledge have I none, Bib I my aunt's washerwoman's son, Heard a policeman on his beat, Say to a labourer in "the street, That he had a letter just last Aveek From a Chinese coolie in Timbucktoo, Who said the niggers in Cuba knew, Of a coloured man in Texas town Who got it straight from a circus clown That a man in Klondyke. heard the news ■From a gang of South American Jews About somebody in Borneo Who heard of a man who claimed to know Of a .swell society dame Whose mother-in-law will undertake To- prove that her seventh husband's sister's neice Had stated to the Paris police That she has a son who has a friend Who really did know when the war would end.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 46, 9 February 1943, Page 2
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