Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov. 14, 1917, by Various, Edited by Owen Seamen
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People are asking, Can there be a hidden brain in the Foreign Office?
A German posing as a Swiss, and stated by the police to be a spy and a dangerous character, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The matter will be further investigated pending his escape.
Three men were charged at Old Street last week with attempting the pot of tea trick. The trick apparently consists in finding a man with a pot of tea and giving him a sovereign to go round the corner and buy a ham sandwich, the thief meanwhile offering to hold the pot of tea. When the owner returns the tea has, of course, vanished.
The increased consumption of bread, says Sir ARTHUR YAPP, is due to the 9 d. loaf. It would just serve us right if bread cost 2 s. 6 d. a pound and there wasn't any, like everything else.
It is all a matter of taste, says a correspondent of The Daily Mail , but I think parsnips are now at their best. They may be looking their best, but the taste remains the same.
Seventy tons of blackberries for the soldiers have been gathered by school-children in Buckinghamshire. Arrangements have been made for converting this fruit into plum-and-apple jam.
Home Ruler was the occupation given by a Chertsey woman on her sugar-card application. The FOOD CONTROLLER states that although this form of intimidation may work with the Government it has no terrors for him.
The Russian Minister of Finance anticipates getting a revenue of forty million pounds from a monopoly of tea. It is thought that he must have once been a grocer.
The Law Courts are to be made available as an air-raid shelter by day and night, and some of our revue proprietors are already complaining of unfair competition.