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BY THE WAY

By Beachcomber

The Minister Smiles

The Minister of Bubbleblow- ing announced yesterday that variety would be introduced in- to our monotonous and un- exciting aboo-noles next Decem- ber, by allotting an extra soven ounces et blotting-paper per 1,000 customera to' ́each shoo- repairer. At the same timo laces would have to be shorter by at least four inches, as they were needed for export, to pay for the increased allowance of blotting-paper.

Narkover Maxims

It is easy enough to sell a case ofend to a Caira gentle- man if you say it is the new health-giving

brown sugar. What is a real achievement is. to sell it as sand, by persistent sales-talk,

(The May Narkoverian.) A fool and hla money are soon parted. But the test of n successful career is to part a clever man and his money.

(The May Narkoverian.)

Odd Occurrence When the police raided a gambling den the other night they were surprised not to find poker being played. One of them asked for some chips. A lady brought him sixpen-north, including a tasty bit cf fah. Ashamed and baffled, the police withdrew.

Hello! Hello!

A year ago a young man told only their army group of the a lie and won the war.

north, but also the armies fight- The melodrama and bothering against the Russians. ment of those lust days might Monty would have none of I have always maintained that have continued for a month if this. He said bluntly that if when anybody on the telephone

Many they had been fighting the Rus-assumes that he had told the truth. men would have died who are sians they had better surrender right number, you should leave 10 pender their to them. Ho told them hohim happy in his naive belief. alive today

knew his place. He gave them A voice said angrily: "Thla is good fortune,

he has got the

Little blame can attach to the Government for not having yet devised a permanent scheme for ensuring the necessary strength in the armed forces. They can be no nearer knowing the extent of this country's permanent commuit- ments to-day except in so far that as the war recedes prace comes little near and therefore the pro spect of lighter commitments makes slow progress. However, they could no longer postpone an The young man, whose name 124 hours to be back with Tom. What about that cup interim scheme, because it is grossis Martin Hilliard, was sitting authority to surrender to Monty board?" "There's a cat in it," ly unfair to keep in suspense men outside his small caravan on the what was Monty's.

said I. "A cat?" "Yes." "Well, attaining military age; and Mr. outskirts of the horrible sub- They were back; they sur put it out, and get the cupboard

Harburg. across Isaacs has now duly announced urb of

along." "I can't put it out. Captain Martin Hilliard, dur- It's ill." "Oh, stop foolingi such a scheme. Broadly speaking, River Elbe from Hamburg.

He was studying his mapsing the time all this was pro What's the matter with you?" men reaching the age of 18 in

and minding his business when ceeding, continued sitting out- "I'm in the cupboard, too." Then down the road there came a side his

caravan. Ever since I rang off, that day he has not been sure that it is wrong to tell a lie.

1947 will be conscripted for two years, and those becoming simi farly liable in 1948 will serve for a rather shorter period. There will be considerable exemptions on the usual grounds, though de- ferment will, except in certain categories, cease at the end of this year. That is why conscription is expected to produce no more than 150,000 out of an annual class Bet. mambering about 300,000. The question is whether this figure will be enough to compensate for

By

PAUL HOLT

the rendered.

comical convoy of Germans of foot, Two elderly civilians and one officer.

south

Attention, Brides!

Self-Expression

Somebody who has the bap- piness and the welfare of us ill at heart hopes to use atomie planets above the stratosphere, power to shoot manufactured where they will be "anchored for interplanetary airships. by gravity" and used as bases

This makes the new band- made rotatoes seem rather dull.

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How long is a bride a bride? It was soothing to read a headline-Sea Bride Drifts 3 Hours." I thought of mor- The Germans were in an up- maids and siren calls, so sweet

They had come under a white flag to request that they did the short sentence fall onl But I was wrong for the headline referred to Mrs. British in the impending assault the car. Phoenix Rubber Workers, which Scots-born wife of a Dutch sea on Hamburg should ignore the

Edith Bergsma, 23-year-old,

Not In The History Books H. RUTTONJEE & SON LTD. tlie loss of such now serving, who lie to the of the city,

I read that "St. George is are all expected to be demobilised They said the factory had been captain, who plunged from her known in Egypt as El Khidr." before the end of 1948. The turned into a military hospital. Thea, in Bridlington Bay, and the American phrase "No Khid-

husband's sinking ccaster,

This is of course, the origin of the clearly depends on

The young

with the ship's man listened Swarn ashore the effort

the to attract

Americans landed at Alexandria volunteers to the Regular Forces. politely to what they said, mak papers and her marriage corti ing" When

she saved

in the ing notes, and thanked them, fleate, which

seventeenth century they were Even if success comes up to hopes, saying that he would pass on carefully dried, there will only just be enough to their request to General Lyne, There are several answers to shown the benes of the dragon killed by St. George. A meet foreseeable commitments. his buss, the commander of the my query.

Some will suy

acientist established that they For example, in the case of the famous Seventh Armoured

Bergsma was a bride on enter-were the bones of a hippopota- Army, the largest figures men- Division. tioned as the strength of the Re- As they turned to go be en-ing the church, and a wife on us, and so St. George was call- ed the Kidder, which the Egyp- the subject. No leaving it. gular Army are 150,000 next larged upon

Some that she is a bride for tians corrupted into El Khidr. reason, no reason at all why

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Both these figures leave large gaps ing back to the German lines,

to be filled by conscripts. Mr. the full disposition of the Bri-think that she and all her sis- Isaacs was therefore wise to say tish forces. He showed them ters in matrimony are brides that however great the success of the map. Would it not be bet-ngain whenever they think to voluntary recruitment the new ter to save all Hamburg rather rescue their marriage lines from water or from fire. And that compulsory scheme could not be than just one factory?

Stiffly the three Germans will make a lot of brides among affected. He was also wise to

a suggestion us." announce continuance on a volun- protested. Such

Attention, Stars! tary basis of those women's Ser- was beyond the, scope of their mission. The young English- vices which have rendered the ef- man sighed. Perhaps he should

And what is a star? There at the Stratford fective and fighting strength of not tell them. Yet, what harm? ie a tuss on

Nobody Wants 141 Dead Whales

Melbourne, June 11.

A 1,200-yard stretch of beach on the south coast of Victoria is littered with the bodies of 141 Blackfish whales that were stranded on the shore.

They will be left there to rot

the Forces so much greater. It The plan was for R.A.F. Bomber Memorial Theatre about the as they are too far from settled

of the playars there areas to is a

make their removal nelancholy reflection on Command to lay down a 1,000- quality

to henour Shake- necessary. the present state of affairs that a bomber raid on Hamburg, fol- gathered

memory. Sir Barry Socialist

Several companies have in-' Government, whose lowed up by a plain infantry speare's

attack from Marshal Rokossov- Jackson said that a star is any quired into the possibility of re- members violently opposed a very sky's First White Russian male or female actor with the covering oil from the whales mild measure of National Service Army.

airs and. graces to drive

the largest of which is 20-feet before the war, should now havei The three Germans, said that management to distraction.

and using the flesh for ferti Captain to adopt a much more stringent they would go back to Hamburg

Cunningham-Reid fizer, but the idea has been said that he or she should be abandoned because of the inac- course. They cannot, however, to report.

How could they know that no paid at least £300 a week. be criticised for so doing. In no

cessibility of the spot and the Miss Valerie Taylor, leading poor quality of the mammals. matter is both knowledge and request for the bombing of

Hamburg had been sent to Bom- actress of the company, said

Blubber on the whales is only responsibility so peculiar to the

ber Command? How could she would like to sue the pair an inch thick compared with Government of the day as in na- they know that Rokossovsky's of them. She should be more about two feet of blubber on tional defence, and no British Russian infantry was then 120 sure of herself than that. Star- thone normally used for com- Government could fail to act on miles away? They were trap dom is not in the giving of mercial purpose.

either of those gentlemen, but what it knows. It must be pre- pod rats, dignified but futile.

Experts, have been unable to From that hour a mad gallop rests in the hands of the audi-determine why the whales died, sumed, therefore, that the Cabi-i

is too often for- but it is believed they auffocat- net has struck what it thinks the of improbabilities proceeded. ence. This

ed, being unable to breathe on proper, balance between the claims The three Germans stepped on gotten,

a shoe-mine 100 yards from our Custom saya a star is a star the beach because of their on our manpower of industrial

outposta. Onc-nobday knows only when she can command a weight,--Associated Press. recovery and national defence who got through, and next management to place her name: respectively Some may indeed dawn a full mission-arrived to above-the-title-of-tho-play-to- think the forecast that "by nogotiate the surrender of Ham be given. And while a manage- little Armenian, was sent by the end of this year all fit men burg..

ment can be thus commanded by Stalin to America to see what Mikoyan caine between 18 and 30 still in civil General Lyne's -tranquillity in airs, gracea or the need to pay he could see. life" will be in indispensible work this affair was momentarily in- 300 a week, it is generally back enraptured by two facets of Far Western civilisation- to be rather optimistic. But at least terrupted when one of the party done through merit,

And meritis a thing more | hot dogs and ico creum. Scon there will not be enough surplus requested that he also negotiate

for the surrender of all the often discerned by an audienco all Moscow was rich in hot dog. manpower to ensure that the German forces in that aren. than by a management. Tale stands and ice cream booths. Forces get all they need in the

courage, Miss Taylor.

Soon, too, mothers of small- way of volunteers.

babbles As to the cf-

buying the ice To have gone Into such a fect of conscription, it will not be matter would have been more

A Russian Story

cream, melting it to feed their infants. so serious to industry nor to the than a social gaffe, and he pass- men concerned as in bygone days, ed tho suggestion on to hin My household for the past The Forces are in character much Army commander, General five days has been using, shav- } constant. more educational and have been Dempsey, who as smartly paas-ing sticks for tollot soap, walt-

deliberately made even more 10, Tod it on to Field-Marshaling for the new rationing period

Montgomery,

Ex-Service men will have bad

Hero, again thore arono in much training and experience embarrassment. For the Ger useful to them in civil life

mans wanted to surronder; not

...

were

The milk shortago had stayed

Tailpiece

to start.

Overheard Two girls talk- Shortages are always funny Ing in the bus: "What does sho that way. I remember once know about? Why, cho's one of Mikoyan, a saturnine and folly those pencetíme brides/