PORTUGUESE JOKE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 January 1941, Page 6

PORTUGUESE JOKE

NAZI CONSUL THE VICTIM Tills truthful lale shews that, nlthough sometimes dazed by the fearsome drumming uf Nazi propaganda, mu Number I Aliy. Portugal, remam-: impervious to its blandishments and enjoys an occasional tilt at minds made torpid by the continual study of "Mein Kampf,"’ relates "Lucio” in the "Manchester Guardian." A recent down disclosed five merchant ships slowly moving up the Dour«> River. A facetious Portuguese immediately telephoned the German Consul at Oporto reporting the arrival of a Nazi convoy. The Consul replied such could not be the ease ns he had no prior advice. However, when at least t’nree more people left the same message, lie -perhaps with hope in his breast—trained binoculars or. to the ships. The good German lenses would not lie and the Red Ensign flaunted him at each yardarm His next informant was curtly advised to consult an oculist, "I know they fly the British flag.’’ replied the innocent observer, "but as your radio insists that the British have been swept from the seas, I thought, just in ease one crippled warship be still afloat, the- colours were camouflage.” The joke lust its savour ns the morning progressed Ultimately the baited Nazi telephoned the Prefecture to complain in- was being tormented in •’» most unneutrill way.