The Censor at Work.
Beneath a photograph of a naval officer The Daily Mirror says:—
"A daring raid has just been made by Commander Samson ... The small picture shows the commander."
Beneath the same photograph The Daily Mail says:—
"A famous British naval airman (nameless by order of the Censor)."
But the order of the Censor came too late. The Mirror had given the great secret away to the Kaiser, and the whole course of the war was altered.
Recruiting Officer. "What's the good of coming here and saying you're only seventeen years old? Go and walk round that yard and come back and see if you're not nineteen."
"I 'opes yer mistress'll 'scuse me bein' so late with the washin'. Yer see, I dussent come in daylight for fear of the Government pinchin' my 'orse for the war."