Daily Post - 27.09.1941, Blaðsíða 3

DAILY POST
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An Aircraftman Back From Leave
England Today
By R. H. P.
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j\URING my redent visit to England what impressed me most,
was the new attitude which the vast majority of people
have taken up. No longer does the contant threat of invasion re-
^iain in their minds but on the contrary the burning question is
“When are we going to invadte.” Throughout the country there
ls the ever-growing belief that the day is coming, and coming
soon, when we shall cross the channel and repay the Boche in
full for the bloody scenes of Dunkirk.
íncreased rations
Sin<>e ooming to thi’s islaind I
have Qonstantly heard abouit the
vairiions shortages which have
heen experienqed back hiome.
Therefi'j re I did not expect to
Hnd oonditilon's v&y good, pahti-
Qalairly fl0r civilian's, and I wias
asnazed td finid howi exqeflent
things were- Though rationifng is
still in fiorce there ane quite liber-
al supplies of food and in faot
the only real shortage was that
°f matohes. The ministeir of
hiood has annoumoed that during
the winter months the raition of
ttiö'st essfínt'al foodstufrs is likely
be incneased. Rationing in
Bngiand today is not so muoh a
oreans of oonserving the 'national
stocks ais a mothod fo-r the equal
distrihution of oommodities.
A TRIBUTE
With the luiil in aír-raids,
transpi0rt oonditions Jiave improv-
ed greatly and even 'Over the
iongest runs trains are seldom
more t,hain minutes late. This,
°onsideiing t,he amount'of traffic
the railwiays have to cater for
and t,he faot that they ane sh-ort-
staffed, is a wonderful tribute to
tbose who ruin our leading Iines.
Thus the ou’tlook of the people
°f England aod the oondiitions
wnder w.h;ch these people live
bndes well for the fuiture. The
(fivilian wiorkers are putiting up
a magnifioent show1. The ouitput
Raiuge is reaching newier amd
greaíer .heights and this, with the
'aid given us by our Amierican
aUies, wi’ll make victory a
œrtainty.
Already the R.A.F. are on the
^ffensive and daily one heard the
rimr of numerous planes as they
vent tO' carry ou,t their daylight
devastating sweeps. Each newk
buiietin brought forth amnounce-
ments of fu,rther sudcesses by the
R-A.F. and we all khew that
Ibe enemy was getting a taste
off his own medioine. The most
talked about subject of the day
wBs the que8tion o? aid to Ruissia.
There w|aTie mamy i»ho thought
we should send a strong foroe to
RUssia, others who tbought we
oould do best by se!1ding ma.e ial
only and finally tho&e who
thought that wp sho'uld ourselves
make an immediate attack on
the oontinent. All, however,
ad'Opted an aggressive attitude
and wiere p'O’sitive that, given a
chanCe ou,r ‘boys‘ could beat the
hide off the Hun. This, then,, was
the new outlook, the now feeling
which iwill lead u,s to viCtory.
Mews nf lceland
“Englsnd” by a
Icelander
Mr. Árni Jónssioin frá Múlagave
a speech at the first autumn
meeting of the Anglia Society on
Thursday evening, on the subject
of his main ímpressions of Eng-
land when he visited it necently,
in company wiith other Icelandic
journalists. He praised the oour-
age of the British people, and
related how/ the Mayor of Cov-
entry had told him that when
about 400 people, killed in the
terrible air-raids on Coventry,
wiene buried, there wtas no sign
of weeping. This, he said, was
not due to laak of feeling, but
tio a dauntless spirit.
He said that the British were
sio sure of victory that the
tbought of defeat never entered
their heads.
Never had freedom of speech
and cri'ticism ,been s,° evidemt as
now. Mr. Árni mentioned question
time in the House of Commons,
as evidenoe of this.
New American
Warship Launched
A new American battleship, the
‘Massaahusetts', left the stoaks
the day befoine yesterday. She
is of 35,000 tons, or as large
as the latest Bratish battleships,
‘King George V‘ ,and ‘Prinoe of
Wales'. She will have a onew’
off 1700.
This warship left the sto,ciks
several wieeiks ahead of sche-
dule. As soon as she wias launc-
hed, the keel of a new, iarge
oiui&er wias laid.
FILM NOTES:
“Naughty but nice“.
(Nýja Bíó).
Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dick
Powell, Gale Page, Helen
Broderick, Ronald Reagan, All-
en Jenkins. — Warner Bros. —
First National. Director: Ray
Enright.
Quite unbelievable story of a
staid professor of music who is
converted into swing after a
tempestuous career.
It is all quite crazy but
amusing nevertheless, and
owes a lot to its tunefulness
and spirited dialogue.
Dick Powell proves he is
quite a good comedian, while
Ann Sheridan displays her
‘oomph’ effeetively.
“Dance girls, dance.”
(Gamla Bíó).
Cast: Maureen O’Hara. Louis
Hayward, Lucille Ball, Virginia
Field, Ralph Bellamy, Mary
Carlisle, Walter Abel. R.K.O.
Radio Pictures. Director: Doro-
thy Arzner.
Adapted from Vicki Baum’s
novel, this backstage drama
with song and dance interludes
provides fairly good enter-
tainment.
Lucille Ball and Maureen O’-
Hara are well contrasted types
as two chorus girls who
struggle for stage fame.
Louis Hayward exploits his
easy carefree manner with
success as a wealthy playboy
but Lucille Ball steals the show
as a hard boiled wise cracking
chorine.
A schooner laden with to-
bacco, conserved fruit and
sweets recently ran he gauntlet
of dive bombers and artillery
tö bring he garrison at Tobruk
some comforts.
UP TflE GARDEN
PATfl
By George
A humiliating incident oocurred
the other day wihen the 51st
Cross-bowis paraded befiore Gen-
eral C. V. O. Hoggsbody. The
reghnental masoot, a mne blue-
nosed dinosauh, tamed during the
Rumba-Gonga oampaign and
dressed in camoufiage netting,
this masoot inisi'sted on malking
rude moisas at the general. It
was disoovered too late to be my
friend Oolonel Brass-Hattery, tog-
ether with Brunnehild Balaclava
the Btonde Spy, both soused. A
Court of Inquiry will be held.
Witnesses ha\'e been wairned to
keep away.
*
A oorporal is one who has not
quite suoaumbed to the unpopul-
arity of three stripes.
m
“Howi keenly the gallant sold-
iers dig for victory!“ remarked
Aunt Priscilla. “I wpnder if their
kind officers fully realise the
enthusiasm?“
*
“Party dee foy grass is what
we need,“ said the Bombairdier
at the Messing- Oommittes Meet-
Ing, “Pariy dee foy grass, full
of vite-a-mines. Maikes your belly
hot, like solid rum“ “Party nut-
hin,“ snaried a mere Lanoe-
Bombardier. “Why can’t we have
winkles, that’s what we want to
kmow. No need to buy the pins
out of oompany funds, just get
the w'inkles-“ “Nuts“, bellioiw'ied
the gunner. “What about this for
breakfast? ... three friecl eggs
— or four, toast, kidneys, saus-
ages, baoon that’s lean and
wirinkled ..“Bu;t“, interrupted
the P. R. I. “That doesn’t solve
the problem of how' to prevent
wastage of hard taok“.
*
Must khaki green be u&ed even
for Y.M.C.A. blotting paper? Or
is it blanooed daily when the
piano keys ane highly polished?
*
I w'tish I íwe-re a fu.rry worni
To dig a hole that’s deep:
I’d tie myself in teeny kroots
And sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
Why not buy the Daily Post
instead of reading it free in the
YMCA? Don’t deny it, I saw
you. That is prop—a—gan—da.