SAD CASE OF WAR NERVES

Gun Flash, Issue XXVI, 25 June 1943, Page 3

SAD CASE OF WAR NERVES

Position now r erne cl iod He’s been working too hard; you’ve all noticed it. Visiting officers have all remarked on his loss of weight* R.A.P. Orderlies have advise ed him to take it easy; the doctor has been attending him secretly for a general breakdown in health. For weeks now his "silly soldiers" have feared for him; they have watched his hair graying and falling; his face becomes more lined; his hand trembles; his once sparkling eyes (blue) assume a dull warship greay (vide: Mess Account). Likewise sartorially a change has taken place; his trousers are too loose around the waist; his shirts hang on him; even a new cap cover (the old one was borrowed) has not been able to check the rapid decline of this once sartorially perfect figure. And all this through overwork. He’s a bag-o-bone a bundle of nerves; a slave to insomnia; a sufferer of digestive disorders# And so what do the authorities do? Why, they send him an assistant to share with him the ever increasing worries and responai-

bilities of "Nuts" Section, as they fight on to bring the was? to a rapid and successful conclusion.

We extend . a warn welcome to Mr. Troupe and would take this opportunity of advising all our readers that Mr. Troupe has only just arrived back from New Zealand and would be only too delighted to give anyone any information on the subject of Americans in New Zealand, the beer position in New Zealand, the .latest dope on coal mine strikes, the pay of "wharflea", the problem of the increased birth rate in New. Zealand; in fact any little queries at all. The only thing he has been sworn to secrecy over is "How to get home on courses".

■ • '’Gorilla" fighting TOM'S Versionin'.'.