Hi,

Cotty wrote:

> > From a British newspaper a hundred years ago:
> >
> >"Storm in the English channel, the Continent is isolated"
> 
> Actually there was a newspaper headline during WWII mentioning that
> communications were down between England and France during the occupation
> and it went something like this:
> 
> Lines Cut to France - Europe Isolated
> 
> or something like that....

The best headline I've seen (on a website, so not authenticated) seems
to come from the time of the first world war.

"French push bottles up Germans"

Don't know whether to laugh or wince.

mike
(lying)

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