Northern light - 01.07.1941, Side 9

NORTIIERN EK'.HT
to dispel most of the illusions with which
one has been burdened. Take this fish
question, for instance. I feel very strongly
about it: I have been misled.
One had nice ideas about fish. They
lived in schools or shoals. They filled
trawlers with a silver harvest. After a
carefully ordered process at Grimsby or
Hull they turned up on the local fish-
monger’s slab next to a block of ice.
All very orderly and just as it should
be. One wras not told that there was
another side to it; that the clean, whiíe,
pleasantly odorous substance on the slab
could be a very horror. When one went
round to the fish and chip shop for one’s
supper, little ditl one realise that one day
one would loathe the very mention of
fish.
The way fish is left about in Iceland
is appalling. In a country where long
dead remains of fish are spread upon
the fields; where dead fish are piled at
the roadside with as much abandon as
gravel; where thousands of dead fish hang
in frames; where half a dozen bloated
carcasses hang from the window-sill of
every other house; where the good clean
wind is filled with the smell of dead
fish; where a combined odour of gas-
works and dead fish is possible — well,
surely it’s a bit thick to stand on the
tiuay and pull more of the beastly things
out of the sea!
No: one has had enough of fish. One
dreams about them. Their baleful stare
strikes up at one from the soil; looks
down fronr gibbets — What’s that? Mail
in?
Mail up! Any for me? Yes, first letter
from home. Hooray! Let’s forget about
the fishy place and see what Mother’s
got to say .... Was I seasick? ....
Father’s all right....Am I wearing my
winter — lord, what’s this? Have I been
fishing yet?
Ron Lane.
ONLY RUMOURS
We understand that German “tourists”.
until recently in Greenland, are now be-
ing entertained by the Canadian Govern-
ment.
* * *
The first leave draft have now been
given permission to tell their Icelandic
friends that they have been home to Eng-
land.
* * *
Sabotage is suspected in connection
with a recent incident at the docks,
where a cargo of rice destined for the
Army was unloaded into the sea.
* * *
Sisters nursing eye-patients have re-act-
ed strongly against the suggestion that
men suffering from “glad eye” should be
regarded as suffering from a contagious
(lisease.
Three Naval Officers have been repri-
manded recently for an attempt to paddle
in the lake.
Captain Watkins reports that people in
England still think that Walt Disney
wrote “Snow White”.
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R.A.F. men have expressed the opinion
that Iceland “stukas” are far more diffi-
cult to contend with than the German
type.
* * *
Since the visit home on leave of a
certain Editor, one can clearly see signs
of “The Yorkshire Post” being re-modell-
ed along the lines of “The Midnight Sun”.