We are told that "it is confidently believed by the advisers to theTreasury that the new issue of £1 notes cannot be successfullyimitated." We think that it is a mistake to put our artists on theirmettle in this way.
A black eagle, a contemporary tells us, was seen one day last week atWestgate-on-Sea. A Prussian bird, no doubt, in mourning for lost Calais.
The German Government has declared timber contraband of war owing to itsalleged scarcity in Germany. Surely, as Douglas Jerrold suggested onanother occasion, the German authorities could find plenty of wood intheir own country if they only put their heads together?
The news that "Bantam" battalions are now being formed all over Englandis said to have greatly interested General Kluck.
The report that the Prime Minister spent last week-end in the country issaid to have caused intense annoyance to the Kaiser, who considered thatit showed a lack of respect for His War.
A map of the United Kingdom published in the Berlin Lokalanzeigerdepicts the Mersey as being located in the West of Ireland. Frankly, weare surprised at the Germans showing any Mersey anywhere.
Mr. John Ward has been accused of perpetrating a mixed metaphor when hewarned the Government, the other day, that "they would wake up and findthe horse had bolted with the money." Is it not, however, a fact thatwhen a horse bolts he sometimes takes a bit between the teeth?
The financial expert of The Observer, in referring to the War Loan,said:—"From all over the country the small investor rallied in histhousands." But he had just said that "the applicants were enormous."Possibly the truth is somewhere between the two—say about 11½ stone.
A football pavilion in Bromley Road, Catford, was entirely destroyed byfire last week. We are trying to bear the blow bravely.
There would seem to be no limit to the influence of the Censor. Here isthe latest example of his activities:—
We must confess that we fail to see what British interest is served bywithholding the General's name.
The German Imperial Chancellor has now repeated, in the presence of afull-dress meeting of the Reichstag, the old falsehood about GreatBritain being responsible for the War. This, we believe, is what isknown as Lying in State.
And the statement that Germany need have no fears of a food famine maybe described, we take it, as a Cereal Story.
Sven Hedin has received the honorary degree of Doctor from BreslauUniversity—as a reward, presumably, for doctoring the truth.
It sounds like a 30,000 foot cinema film.
The least that we others can do is to see that those who have joined thecolours don't have too dull a time in camp during the long evenings.Messrs. John Broadwood and Sons are organizing concerts which will servethe further good purpose of helping many