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Many graphic tales have been told ofthe immense loads of plunder carriedoff during the fighting in Dublin; butthere has been looting on a large scaleelsewhere, if one may believe theheadline of a contemporary:—"Manarrested with Colt in his pocket atBloomsbury."
Says a writer in The Daily Chronicle:"In one neighbourhood within theZeppelin zone there are hundreds ofpartridges who defy the Defence of theRealm Act. Two or three hours beforeanyone else is aware that the baby-killersare approaching these bold birdsgo chuckle, chuckle, chuckle, as if therewere an army of the more human sortof poachers about." Personally wehave always felt that thesection of the Defence of theRealm Act which forbids oneto go chuckle, chuckle, chuckle,when the Zeppelins are approachingis superfluous aswell as in inferior taste.
Dr. Walford Davis, in alecture on "Songs for HomeSinging," recently told hishearers how Major TomBridges saved a couple ofbattalions at the Front withtwo penny whistles. We feelbound to point out howeverthat any attempt to save thenation with the same exiguousweapons would be too hazardousto be encouraged.
Owing to a lack of thenecessary dyes there will soon be nomore red tape available for the WarOffice and elsewhere. It is to behoped, however, that the familiar andpicturesque salutation with which staffofficers are in the habit of takingleave of one another, "So long, OldTape!" will not be allowed to becomeobsolete.
Attention has recently been drawn tothe number of strapping boys who areidling their time away in cinema housesin the absence of their fathers at theFront. Their strapping fathers, ofcourse.
According to the President of theBaptist Union, "you must hit a Londonerat least six times before hesmarts." We do not presume to disputethis statement, but what we wantto know is, how was the Londoneroccupied while the President of theBaptist Union was conducting hisextremely interesting experiment?
Owing to the scarcity of tonnage,Denmark shipowners have put intocommission two 18th-century sailingvessels. Meanwhile in the neighbourhoodof Mount Ararat there is, welearn, some talk of organising anexpedition for the recovery of theArk with a view to her utilisation inthe cattle-carrying trade.
The Recorder of Pontefract statesthat in a recent walk he followed forthree miles three men who were smoking,and counted sixty-two matchesstruck by them. It is reported that thegentlemen concerned have since calledupon the Recorder to explain that itwas in a spirit of war economy thatthey had dispensed with the servicesof the torch-bearer who had hithertoattended their movements.
There will be no Bakers' Exhibitionthis year, it is announced. Many chicmodels however, both in gáteaux andthe new open-work confiserie, will beprivately exhibited.
A contributor to The Observer drawsour attention to the phenomenally earlyreturn of the swifts. But after allthere must be something particularlysoothing about England these days to aneurotic fowl like a swift.
It is rumoured that Mr. Birrell haslately thrown off one of his obi BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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