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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH .... April 16, 1940.

HUMOUR IN

THE

TRENCHES

LONDON.

Many brave new journals with names more original than any Fleet-street ever. thought of, were conceived and produced by men on the various fronts, and at sea, In the Great War.

Disaster To All Owners ·

SERAJEVO CAR HOODOO LASTS FOR 25 YEARS

BELGRADE.

THE motorcar in which the last war began is lying There were, for instance, the "C' derelict in a breaker's yard in Belgrade.

Fire," the "Minor Offence,"

the

the

"Jackdaw," the "Bairns Gazelte," It is the car in which the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the "Con Comp Courier Dheir-apparent to the throne of Austria, and his wife were and a hundred others. Some were shot dead by the assassin Princip, 25 years ago as they were typewritten and others were drove through the streets of Serajevo.

duplicated hand-written sheets, some

printed.

But common to each of these jour- mals was that it satisfied the average Briton's incurable craving to "see it In print"; that it informed and en- tertained, and that it reflected a magnificent and continued cheerful- ness, optimism, and determination In the face of danger and privation.

There is a fascinating collection: of examples of the trench journalism! of 1914-10 at the Imperial War Mu- seum

in London, and they are anxious to secure as complete a Mie as possibile of the newspapers and magazines by and for men of the forces which, they feel certain. will appear in this war (writes a corre-

Accord-i spondent of "The Times"). ingly, editors of "Maginot Murmur- lug and the rest are asked to. be! good enough to send along coplesi to the brarian. Imperial War Mu-1 keum, Lambeth-road, S.E.

Editorial Humour

old! the The Press magnates of Western. Front and other theatres of war set a high standard for their! sucessors of to-day. There was, for! instance, the "Wipers Times," which,! more than once surviving destruction of its plant by enemy shell, ran on from 1915 for rather longer than the war itself. During this time it knew! frequent changes not only of loen-

tion, but of name, so that finally it was called "The Better Times, With Which Are Incorporated The Wipers Times, The New Church Times. The Kemmel Times, The Summe Times and The B.E.F. Times."

Looking through old copies of this! cheerful and perky production, it was easy to understand why after the war Lord Plumer paid n warm tribute to its value in maintaining the wonderful spirit of cheerfulness shown at all times by the ircops on! the Ypres salient.

Hinting at the dimculties of news- continuous paper production under

artillery barrage in their first num

ber, the editors (Lieutenant-Colonel

LATE NEWS

Ever since then this German. made car has brought death and disaster to its owners.

after the several months .For assassination I lay in 24 garage.

of Scrajevo, : the Governor Then General Pollorek, who was riding in the car when the Archduke and his wife were killed, and who narrowly escaped deaths then, had it repaired for his own use.

Its cushions were recovered, the shots had holes where the pistol pierced the couch-work were sealed. A few days later the Governor went into battle for his country, and

shame defezted. The drove him mad, and he died pen- niless in a lunatic asylam.

WHO

The car passed into the hands of an Austrian offleer. On two sucezs-j

the sive days it killed people an roads, and soon afterwards its owner] was killed when the car struck a pylon.

Tivo more owners were killed while?

After that it was driving the car.

laid up again.

Lost An Arm

After the nemistlee, when Bosnia became Jugoslav territory, the new Governor of Serajevo acquired the} car, which had been given a new coat of paint.

After being involved

in four accidents, in one of which he lost an arm, he fold it to a doctor.

Six months later, the docter was called to an urgent case in the country. He never got there. The car was found overturned with the doctor's body lying 50 feet away. The doctor's natient died. The

car was towed to

a garage, repaired, and sold to a wealthy land- owner. Within six months he be- came bankrupt and committed sul- cide.

His executors sold the car to a business man. A week later, in a collision, he killed two people and injured four passengers he enrrying,

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Into the Anin the car passed hands of a doctor. When he was

F. J. Roberts and Major J. H. Pear- not specified) at the local bank.] son) asited to be excuted shortcom- "In the event of death caused by warned, he sold it at a ridiculously a garage proprietor, ings on the grounds of inexpertness submarine anywhere in the Willow gure to

will be and the fact that pieces of metal of district your next of kin Various sizes had punctured their entitled to claim 11s id if you had who re-sold it to a press. They threaten to treat as an at the time of death one of our motorist, Bluntli. unfriendly act hampering "attentions coupons, fully signed

After

by mr local rival, Mesars. Hun and this it might be appropriate to quote Co."

Agony Column

little piece entitled "War":

Take a wilderness of ruin. Spread with mud quite slx

deep;

cut

+

feet

some

Swiss racingi

Crash On Mountain

Blunt used it as a publicity medium, boasted that it was the car of

an ex-emperor, scoffed at his friends who reminded him of its evil ascoelations. One day he left with In this muid now,

his fam

family in the car for a holiday channels,

in-the-Dolomites-The-car-struck Then you have the line we keep another as it was mounting a pre-

As In

Their newspaper has all the essen- tial features. There is the Agony

·Column--"Will-any-putriolie-person please lend a yacht and £10,000 to al lover of peace? Size of yacht im-

all these war-timesheets cipitous mountain road and hurled fcet Address Lonely. Soldier, there are sporting notes, cartoons. it into a ravine hundreds of material. care of Editer." There is readers' jokes new and less up to date, below. Bluntil was

killed. correspondence, with the inevitable serial, "Herlock Sholmes At It Again."

Five more times it changed hunds, first claimant to hearing the cuckoo, short stories, and any amount of verse. and this provokes a fierce contro- We and at one perlod regular contri- and each of its new owners or their versy in succeeding issues.

butions from Mr. Gilbert Frankiu, friends met sudden death. Even- way to another Tamong them "Some Dream" (March tually it found its Another letter runs: "Sir, May I 13, 1916), with its comforting version garage, where it was repainted..

foreigner staying in the town draw your attention to the fact that of a wonderful British advance→→→

one day and bought it. Some lately the lighting by night in Ox- No human force could hope to cum saw it one ford-street and Regent-street bas Those waves of Plum and Apple weeks later he was driving It to his wedding, with his bride-to-be sitting been terribly rieglected, star shells

next to him and five guests in the rear seats.

Even as he was entertaining the of sta passengers with the story chequered career, the car skidded on a bend of the road and over- turned. The entire wedding party were killed.

jom

being sent up at very irregular inter- so that at last alone in Glencorse vals. Cannot someone move in the Wood; undaunted, Little Wille stood, matter? Pro Bono Publico." An- but tarried until someone smote. other correspondent, provoked prob ably by an abundance of shell holes, writes chlding the City Fathers for the disgraceful state of repair of the ronds.

But there is much more than readers' correspondence. The paper announces a great insurance scheine, with a backing of ten million (what,

Full on that gorged and greedy

throat

With a faked requisition note.

Twas mine! Ch terror at my

breast,

My traktor soul in dreams, con-

lessed;

And woke to And-not Army

scandals

But shortage in our ration candles,

оп

Now the car has been dismantled and is waiting to be broken up-by whoever will undertake the job.

The numerals on its number plate total 13.

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