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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 26, 22 December 1939, Page 6

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OTICE on a Nazi concentration camp: "The barbed wire surrounding this camp is charged with electricity. To try and escape through it means instant death. Those trying to do so will be shot." * * Ss CCORDING to Nazi beliefs there are too many foreigners in the world. The Fuehrer has given them twenty-four hours to clear out. * % % PROM a French newspaper: " The British Minister of War, the Right Honourable Belisha Beacons." % * r’ ‘THE stable guard was feeding a bag of buns to a horse when a superior officer came along. " Making a fuss of that horse aren’t you?" he barked. "Isn’t. the nosebag good enough?" Replied the guard: " Normally, sir, I'd say yes. But nothing’s too good for this ’orse, sir-’e kicked " the colonel this morning! * * * "THE manager asked his office boy: "Hasn’t the cashier been in this morning?" " Yes, sir," replied the bright lad. "He came in very early and left again almost at once. I hardly recognised him in a beard." * * * Tt. takes a surgeon to make a good living out of hack work! x * * WE take our hat off to the schoolboy who, asked to give a definition of the Equator, said it was a "Maginot line running round the globe." * * * Now, men, you know what to do when your ammunition is exhausted? Yes, Captain, cease firing. * * * BEVERLEY NICHOLS says this Walter Winchellism is the "best wisecrack of the war." — "I’m neutral. That’s what I am. Neutral. I don’t care who kills Hitler." : * * Ea ONE modern child we know is so cynical she won’t even believe that the stork brought the baby storks. * * * *T HOSE people who live upon their income must necessarily be careful; those who live upon the incomes of others must be clever; and those who live upon their debts must be both. | Ea = * |] ae whole world, except the United States of America, is in,the Temperance Zone. % a * . Seperbeias a small boy in an essay: "The king wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin."