There's no pleasing some people. During an air-raid the other evening the bar-flies were draped out of a window watching the proceedings with their courage in their hands, so to speak. The show was not quite up to the usual mark, with shooting poor and very erratic.
"Not so good this evening," marked one hardened observer.
"Not so good?" queried another "Why I think it's absolutely rotten."
Then we stepped in. "You know I don't think you ought to criticize so harshly. After all we're seeing the show for nothing."
Camouflage Much interest is caused out in the country by the sight of Chinese soldiers walking about with a branch of bamboo above their heads. And quite a few have come to us murmuring something about those two fellows Birnam Wood and Dun-inane, neither of whom are on our calling list, chiefly because their behaviour gave our dear old friend Macbeth the "woollies" Stranger still are the lorries decorated in the same way. This is said to be excellent camouflage designed to wreck the morale of the enemy. Aviators, looking down, and seeing a large sized bush prancing down the middle of a road, have been known to turn their machines round and head for home, swearing to keep off sake for the rest of their lives.
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