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ltaIian|Navy’s Unlucky Numbers: Adventures of
an Imperial Flying Column: Brigade Staff
Captures Italian H. Q. by Accident

DP THE fiARDEN
PATH
By George
After the Russian campaign
Germany will be so short of
guns that it may as well start
issuing butter again.
* * *
Plans are ’being drawn up for
a Reykjavík—Akureyri Tube
With an inner circle serving
Hafnarfjörður. Tunnelling will
eommence j.ust as soon as the
öew brace-andibits arrive from
England. This is only part of
an imaginative traffic scheme,
for the tubes will be met by a
special double-decker non-
stop two-and-a-half-aurar tram
service to the Naafi via the
V.M.C.A.
* * *
Like the Americans, we too
hold Thanksgiving Days. We
givð thanks that today isn’t
yestexday all over again, and
lest tomorrow should be as bad
as today. We give thanks that
a year can’t have more than
366 days in it, and that even
Hitler must die. Above all, we
give thanks to the sailors who
have the courage and the nerve
to bring us even more hard-
tack.
% % %
♦

Flight-Sergeant Suggle-
thwaite has refused a commiss-
^on on the grounds that he
hkes his money regularly. Be-
sides, he won’t let anyone make
riugs round him.
* * *
On hearing the air-raid siren,
Etta the Taxi Terror screamed
“Police!” and left my friend
Golonel Brass-Hattery with
Oothing better to do than take
shelter.
* * *
In view of the candle short-
age, certain troops are in
danger of going withcut essent-
foodstuffs. Probably. like
sWallows and reindeer, they
migrate south this winter.
ÁUGLÝSIÐ í DAILY POST!
The Italian Navy has some
unlueky numbers. Last month
Agnew of the Aiu-ora sunk 13 of
them; now he’s got three morte,
with a total tonnage of over
10,000. One was a tanker with
a rich cargo of petrol tuid ben-
zine which blew up with a
good bang; the Alvise Damosto
was another. She was one of
Italy’s fastest and Iargest de-
stroyers.
MOONLIGHT MARCHES
Adventures of an Imperial
Flying Column which whirled
through Messer to capture Au-
gila and Jalo, is told for the
first time.
For the first three days
they sped along wifh nothing
to stop them.
On the fourth they were heavr-
ly dive-bombed, but defences
were in excellent form.
After Augila had been taken
the columns rested for 24 hours,
and marched by night to Jalo.
It was an eerie moonlight
march in the silence of the
desert, which had the most
peculiar effect upon the nerves
of the troops. After a while
men began to see night mirages.
The most frequent and dis-
concerting hallucination was
that some cars ahead were
going off in the wrong dir-
ection.
After the capture of the Fort
there was an amusing incidént.
The Indians sent up green Very
Lights whereupon the Brigad-
ier, by arrangement, got into
his car with his staff, and drove
to the spot. When he reached
the Fort he found the Indians
had made a mistake with Very
Lights. This signal was to have
been given when the Italian
headquarters in the village had
been captured. However, se-
curing an Italian prisoner as
guide, the Brigadier drove
through the narrow street of
the village unmolested to the
headquarters, where there was
a sentry on guard. The sentry
was taken aback, but before he
could recover a revolver was
held to his head and the party
passed inside.
It found a joyous assembly
of some 70 officers and men
aibout to sit down to dinner at
tables laden with bottles of
cianti.
I
AU seemed paralysed by the
sight of British officers. Al-
though they had a quantity of
bombs and grenades in the
room they surrendered without
any more ado.
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