The Quickest Route.
"THE KING'S JOURNEY.
Crosses Channel in Torpedo."
Cumberland Evening Mail.
This is the method which the Kaiser means to try for his coming invasion of England.
"Professor G. Sims Woodhead, the Board's consultative bacteriological adviser, to whom the report had been submitted, said: 'I consider Dr. Mair's work contains a germ of great promise.'"
Birmingham Daily Mail.
We hope the Professor will not lose sight of the promising young microbe.
"For any enemy ship to try to get into Dover at the present time would be like entering the mouth of hell.
[We understand that the Admiralty have received no condemnation of this.]"
Daily Telegraph.
We hope that none of our contemporaries will blame the Admiralty for its lack of information.
"Rev. Owen S. Watkins, one of the Wesleyan Methodist Chaplains with the Expeditionary Force (already mentioned in the dispatches), tells some most extraordinary stories of his experiences at the Front."
Public Opinion.
We remember now some mention of this "Expeditionary Force" being made in despatches, and we wondered at the time why the Censor allowed such a public reference to it.
The Russians quietly evacuated Lodz without the loss of a single man. The Germans allege that they captured it after strenuous fighting.
"And how can man lie better
Than facing fearful Lodz?"