The following amusing story has been sent in by a reader as showing how Nazi pride went before a fall when some of the German internes from Britain arrived in Canada, and reached their new abodes.
Even Teutonic thoroughness can slip up when it meets with the Canadian mosquito, A courier brought a comforting story from the North, writes Judith Robinson in a Canadian paper. He came from the summer resort chosen in the wisdom of Ottawa, as a suitable place for interning German officer prisoners for the duration of the war. His report was that the German officers Were quite uncomfortable there at first due to a lapse from efficiency in the Nazi educational em. Somebody had forgotten to teach the Nazi officer class the facts of mosquito life in The Playground of Ontario.
So the German ofücer: who were sent to Muskoka celebrated the beginning of their internment by kicking large holes in the new wire mosquito netting on the doors and windows of their quartets. Just a formal protest against the indignity of wired windows on the quarters of German officers.
Then night fell and the first low-born Canadian mosquito got her first taste of pure Aryan blood and liked it Next morning a company of still haughty though itching Aryans demanded that the broken screening be replaced on the doors and windows of their quarters at once. It wasn't replaced for some weeks and in the interval a lot of bauehtiness got scratched out of the visiting Nazis. They are locally reported to have grown more human throughout the black-fly season It is said that they now spend their time telling their guards what a swell guy Adolf Hitler i all day long until night falls. But when night falls they make no trouble at all over the indignity of being shut up behind wire netting.
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