LICHTER SIDE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 235, 18 September 1939, Page 4

LICHTER SIDE

HUMOUR IN CRISIS LONDON, Aug. 30.—The lighter side of tlie crisis is seen in London pictorial new spa per s. Besides devoting pages to every phase of the grim war preparations—armed sentries patrolling the railway stations, marching troops, cheering crowds watching Ministers coining and going in Downing street, and splinter-proof steel pillboxes erected outside Buckingham Palace—they also feature photographs of amusing incidents. .

One is of a smiling bride at Hampstead affixing a placard on the bonnet of her ear outside the church, reading, “Not to-day, Hitler. Tins is my day.” A large printed sign was posted! on the notice-board of a church in South London, reading: “If your knees lvjnock, kneel on them.”

An itinerant artist set Hammersmith laughing with three charcoaled drawings on sandbags outside an hotel, caricaturing Air. Chamberlain, Herr Hitler, and also Mr. Chamber—l.aiu’s famous umbrella. Haili Seliassie, the dispossessed Emtl\eroy of Abyssinia, emerges from ob.scurjity by being photographed attending a conference of Bible students at Swansea.