German Landing One of Whakatane's leading business men, noted for his partiality to ; t i good joke confounded his associates yesterday by bursting in oiu them with the news that the Latest dash from Daventrv, had stated that the Germans had landed in England* in three separate places. When his friends, pressed about for more details and asked him Avhere the landings had been made he quietly replied—"The hospitals, th it prison/' camps and, tlie cemeteries'." Earmarks of a Tragedy The goo I residents of Oh ope suffered a mild stir of consternations last Friday when a small dinghy! floated ashore from the open sea. The boat had a few fish, fishingr*. lines and a- sack 'or two aboard andi _■*- what appeared to have all the ear- - marks of a first class tragedy speed ily had the settlement by the ears. The sequel may be read in one oft*" tlie advertisements in to-day's issue.. What is it? Well read t!# ads and. «~ learn for yourself.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 81, 15 June 1943, Page 5
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