General Villa has now declared war on President Carranza. Everybody'sdoing it.
Is there, we wonder, a single unfair weapon which the Germans have notused? It is now said that not infrequently a German band is made to playwhen the enemy's infantry advances to attack.
A regrettable mistake is reported from South London. A thoroughlypatriotic man was sat upon by a Cockney crowd for declaring that theKaiser was a Nero.
Servia, The Times announces, will in future be called Serbia in ourcontemporary's columns. We would suggest that in the same way Bavariamight be called Babaria.
All German soldiers are close-cropped. To show, apparently, that theyhave the courage of the conviction they deserve.
The German officers in France are said to be extremely careful as towhat they eat, betraying a great fear of being poisoned. It is, ofcourse, a fact that one grain of vermin-killer would dispose of any oneof them.
It has been suggested that the explanation of the Kaiser may be that heis a "throw-back." His parents were gentlefolk, but his ancestor,Frederick William I., was a well-known undesirable.
It is now stated that the reason why the German troops destroyed thehistoric edifices of Louvain and Rheims was the Kaiser's order that nostone was to be left unturned to prove that the Germans are the apostlesof Culture.
It has been decided, after all, that Shakspeare may be played inGermany; and the proposal that the name of the bard should be changed toWilhelm Säbelschüttler has been dropped in deference to the wishes ofthe Kaiser, who thought it might lead to confusion.
It has, we are glad to see, been denied that Carpentier, the famousboxer, has been wounded. This reminds us, by-the-by, of one moremiscalculation that the German War Party made. In choosing their datefor the outbreak of war they relied on the fact that Carpentier was notyet liable for service.
The Germans have had a bright new idea, and are calling us a nation ofshopkeepers. Certainly we have been fairly successful so far inrepelling their counter attacks.
Sound policy this. The enemy cannot fight without his commissariat.
A well-known Floor Polish firm has issued a notice declaring that it isentirely a British concern. However, we shall not complain of theirdealing with an alien enemy if they care to supply a little of it forthe benefit of German manners.
Dr. Karl Vollmöller, who is chiefly notable for his spectacle "TheMiracle," has, The Express tells us, been acting for the past month asGermany's head Press agent in Rome, and has now sailed for New York. Onewould have thought that there was greater need for him in Germany, whereonly a miracle can save the situation.
Publishers seem to be realising that books, to sell nowadays, must havewarlike titles. Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin's new volume is, we note,called A Summer in a Cañon.
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