Many Wes /

We wish to thank our readers for the
generous response to the appeal for The
Outpost Stamp Club. One of the first batch
of stamps to be received by the club was
from New Westminster and the sender
received the following:

Dear Mr. Maguire:

Thank you very much indeed for the generous
lot of stamps you so kindly sent the O. P. S. Club.
We will always be grateful for any American or
British Empire stamps you may care to send us.
If you want to send them on an exchange basis
(stamp for stamp), send one of each different kind
you have for swapping, mounted on a thick piece
of paper and give us some idea of what countries
you are particularly interested in. Your stamps
will be valued at catalogue prices and stamps to
the equivalent value will, in due course, be for-
warded to you. Otherwise just send batches of
stamps and we will send you batches of whatever
we have amongst our spares in return.

Thank you again, very much, for the higher
values which are greatly appreciated.

The OUTPOST STAMP CLUB, an inno-
vation for the benefit of members of the Force
serving on remote out-stations, shows every sign
of proving a great success, but entails a great
deal more work than I ever anticipated.

Kind regards and many grateful thanks.

Yours sincerely,
M. ROLFE,
Editor, The Outpost.

Send your stamps to The Outpost, P.O.
Box 803, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.

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SPEAKING TO A gathering in Bucking-
hamshire, England, Colonel T. R. P.
Warren, Chief Constable of the County,
advised the younger generation never to
trust a German. “He will let you down.
I am just wondering whether we have learnt
our lesson, or whether we shall think in
1950 as we have thought in 1944, that the
only sure safeguard against another war is
to be always ready, and it is up to the people
of this country to see that it is ready.”

ALWAYS BEWARE OF THE GERMAN

We might also add that it is up to the
people of this country to face up to the fact
that the German is at heart a rufhanly
gangster, who, given the slightest chance,
would prepare for a third desperate attempt
at world domination. The British public
is notoriously soft-hearted and so is apt to

‘ discredit the authentic stories of German

atrocities notwithstanding the overwhelming
evidence that is being irrefutably unearthed
of their horrible crimes. Only by the Grace
of God has this country been spared the
visitations of the $.S. and the Gestapo and
their terrible death and torture camps.
Until the German in the fullness of time
has been taught to realise that crime does
not pay, the most vigilant eye must be kept
upon him, and, if the future peace of the
world is to be assured, we must never lose
sight of this fact. Therefore, we are glad
to see that at least one Chief Constable has
thought it fit to publicise the true nature
of the German.

—The Constabulary Gazette.

ACCORDING to the Nottinghamshire
Guardian, a man was sued at Nottingham
in 1743 for cleaning shoes on Sunday while
another man was sued for “shaving persons
The magistrates before
whom these offenders were brought also
dealt with another defendant who was dis-
covered entertaining company in his house
during service time. It was an old custom
for churchwardens to leave church whilst
the service was in progress to visit public
houses in search of delinquents and, sad to

say, they did not always return. It is alg
said that the singers would sometimes ste
across to a neigbouring tavern, where they
would “wet their throats” in order to do
justice to the sacred anthem they were
about to sing.

A LIST of names, recently posted on the
bulletin board of a squadron at Harrington
(Texas) Airfield, was accompanied by these
tense instructions:

“The following enlisted men will pick up
their good - conduct medals at the supply
room this afternoon. Failure to comply
with this order will result in disciplinary
action!”

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