Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, January 27, 1915

Vol. 148.
January 27, 1915.

Herts are doing well, reports Lord Cavan in a letter from the Front received at Stevenage. Herts, in fact, are trumps.

In Germany it is now said that the Kaiser will receive Calais as a birthday present. In France, however, it is said that it will be Pas de Calais.

The English governess whose book Messrs. Chapman and Hall have just published says of the Kaiser:— When he made a witticism he laughed out aloud, opening his mouth, throwing back his head slightly with a little jerk, and looking one straight in the eyes. It seems a lot of trouble to take to intimate that one has made a joke, but no doubt his hearers found it helpful.

Further details of the battle off the Falkland Islands are now to hand. Von Spee, the German Admiral, it seems, ordered No quarter —to which our men retorted, Not half.

An Express correspondent reports from Belgium that the Germans now have a number of monitor-like vessels at Zeebrugge which have only one large gun and sit low in the water. We trust our Navy may be relied upon to make them sit lower still.