FOOTNOTES:
[19] Completed on November 19th, 1915.
[20] The following illuminating advertisement also appeared in the Neue Freie Presse of January 16:
"For Sale.
40 tons prime beef, fresh packed in ice from Holland.
Condensed milk from —— Amsterdam.
Raspberry jam.
China tea, 25 chests.
Soap, 20 to 40 per cent. fatty matter, 8 wagons.
Sausages from —— Holland.
Cement, linseed oil, a wagon of each every week from —— Denmark.
Apply, etc."
Not far away from the above advertisement in the same paper is another.
"Soup extract, 2½d. a cube. Soup vegetables, Julienne, 1s. 8d. per lb., China tea (Souchong), 5s. per lb., just come from a Danish export house."
[21] "Apparently the Declaration of London was valid in the House of Commons, but not valid in the House of Lords."—Lord Beresford, House of Lords, February 23rd, 1916.
[22] In referring to the keeping of Government pledges, Sir A. Markham (L.) said: "The only thing the Prime Minister has stuck to has been his salary."—House of Commons, March, 1916.
[23] Goulashe is the name given to illicit traders with Germany.
[24] Books on the life of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum do not dwell upon this unpardonable fact. Some discreetly omit to mention it.
[25] Daily Mail, August 16th, 1916.
[26] Evening News, August 24th, 1916.
[27] Daily Mail, August 28th, 1916.
[28] Daily Mail leading article, December 6th, 1916.