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WAR SCARE LITHUANIA” 10,000 Bomgep i+ © IN CHINA. Ad MOB LYNcHES -, NEGRO n> | RE emma me the paper” . “What with the football season over, aad the baseball season a moaths away, there's net 6 ‘thing ia Biting ridicule is embowed in Une story of a:dgfendant at a special trial - _ in Munict@Charged with having in- enment, he persists in pleading innocence. The prosecu- tor, ann ursts out: “The ac cused is rty liar! Gentlemen of the jury you, what else but our gove nt could the defendant have referred to when he used the words ‘inceadiaries, thieves end mus- derers'?” Thrusts at the economics of the Third Reich are often stiletto-sharp. According to one alleged rumor, “the kangaroo will soon replace the black eagle on the German insignia—be- cause the kangaroo is the only animal able to go far on an empty pocket.” Many a gag centers on the citizen who bas his breakfast by pulling in another notch on his belt. Partic- ularly devastating are those aimed at Ersatz, the German program of manu- ucts, made necessary by increasing war preparations. A resident of Cologne, the tale goes, is fed up with life in the Third Reich and attempts to commit suicide. He buys a box of rat poison, swal- > lows thecontents. But be doesn’t . die. Ersatg! He gets a rope, tries to. ‘hang himself. The rope breaks. Er- - satz! Finally, he hits on the brilliant idea of getting himself arrested; sure- proaching an S. A. man oa the street, he yells, “Down with Hitler!” But the S. A, man, frightened, takes bim ~ Germany. One night he stole a visit to Oranienburg, concentration camp near Berlin, where many intellectuals ™ are imprisoned, Creeping up to they, | . , barbed-wire fence, he whispered to a group of inmates: “Listen, genth- ‘ . men, do any of you by chance have ~ g few scenarios for me?” Jocular assault and battery upon the newspapers of Germany is com- mitted daily. Retold again and again is the story of the Hungarian dog- ‘ trainer visiting Leipzig whose star * canine died mysteriously one morn- . ing. A veterinarian, called in to deter- mine the-cause of death, learned that the deg had eatén a bit of sausage . which had been wrapped in a news- . paper. When he found that it hae ~ heen Der Stiirmer (notorious anti- _ Semitic sheet). the vet nodded under- _ standingly. “That explains it. A pape: Uke that, not even a dog can stomach.’ we. facturing substitute or synthetic prod- *- Criticism of a more geoeral ature “pounds away at the bedrock of th: "Biles regime with ¢ variety of Fliis terwitse. The rumor is spread, for in stance, that all the dentists in Ger maany are idle because no one is a lgwed to open bis mouth. Or an an cient American wheeze is adapted: - man waiting for a trolley, questionc by 9 suspicious Nasi, replies, “B: _cafieve it or not, I'm waiting for N: ‘tional Socialism to come to Ge. ly he'll be tortured to death. Ap “