POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 21, 25 July 1945, Page 6

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

G. B. Shaw says that the country is run by women. Funny none of them seem to have noticed it. ** - » Husbands in court: After we had quarrelled I brought a dove home as an omen of peace, but the bird flew out of the window and the quarrel went on. * * * Irate strap-hanger: Who are you pushing? Second • ditto: I dunno. Who ara you? * * * LEGLESS ACE. Group Captain Douglas Bader, legless . ace in the Battle of Britain, is flying again—he is developing a flying strategy to beat the Japanese. Bader recently returned after four years in a German prison camp. He reported to the Air Ministry as soon as his liberation leave expired, and. his keen demand to go into action was accepted. " , #, '■ * '". *•' ■■' HID AWAY. ' A young Hindu lance-sergeant who had hidden from the Japanese for the past seven months in a native garden between Tamil and Maprik (Northeastern New Guinea), came into a company of the 6th Division after it had captured the feature. Aged 27, he was taken prisoner at Singapore with 2500 others, and was sent to Rabaul and later to Wewak, where he was forced to work on the roads as a carrier and in the cookhouse. He escaped, and natives hia him in a small garden. * # » PROBLEM FOR GESTAPO. A Channel Islands widow, who had so many children that even the Gestapo did not know what to do, has ended three years of wandering with; her family about France, Belgium, and Germany, and has returned to her little farm on Sark. Mrs. Hilda Guille still does not know why the Nazis showed such interest in her large family after the occupation, or why they eventually shipped them all off to Germany. "We have been moved all over Germany from camp to camp," she said. "I think we were the biggest problem the Gestapo had in the way of prisoners." _ _ The family was among- 250 Channel Islanders who returned home recently It occupied two compartments iq a Channel Islands special from Waterloo Statibn. * * * POST-WAR PLAN. , (Written" Just After Breakfast.) . . You who do our post-war planning Sketch that better world to be-? While the future you are scanning, Think of a request from me. When the din of war is quiet, Guarantee the boon I beg; Give us in our peacetime diet No more dehydrated egg; Powdered milk I richly savour, And I like synthetic jam; Wartime sausage has a flavour; Rissoles can be made from spam Iceland cod is quite delicious — I could eat it by the keg. Only spare me that pernicious, Hateful dehydrated egg! The above is, of course, written as a joke. It is a verse from England passed on to us by "Local." * * * TWO ELEPHANTS. The future is now dear for at least two of the Third Reich's many bewildered citizens. They are two elephants, sole survivors of Munsters once celebrated zoo, who are to Jae transferred to Antwerp Zoo. Thus they achieve the distinction of being the first reparations .made by Germany to Belgium. , . , The difficult problem of their, transport has been solved by Army engineers, who have made special cages for the elephants to be taken on tank transports. Most other inhabitants of the zoo were killed. during the prolonged bombing and shelling of the town, which destroyed almost every structure in the zoo except the'elephant house, where the -elephants are now living in solitary splendour., j Among the animals which survived the shells were 18 alligators, which, were shot tiy our troops as a safetymeasure, and several zebras and horses, which were destroyed for «£ood by thfe town's inhabitants before the arrival of the Allies. "