AHEAD OF TIME
GERMAN SOLDIER KICKED IN PARIS. MAN WHO THOUGHT WAR WAS OVER. A clandestine paper published in France cheers up its readers with an occasional joke. One was about a very small man who punched a German' soldier who trod on his foot in the Paris underground, when another passenger, this time a big man, gave the German a kick in the rear. To the officer at the Kommandantur the small man explained that he suffered severely from corns and just could not help himself when the German trod on his foot. Turning to the big man, the German officer said, “I understand his reason, but why did you kick the representative of the glorious Reich in the rear?” “Well.” replied the big man, “when I saw the little fellow punch him I thought the war was over,”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1942, Page 4
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140AHEAD OF TIME Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1942, Page 4
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