Journalistic Humility.
"Two years ago The Daily Mail begged our sluggish authorities to study the question of daylight air-raids as well as night attacks. We pointed out their risk; we asked that the best means of meeting them should be considered and the best method of warning the public investigated. The result was that nothing was done."—Daily Mail.
"Of old was it written that they who taketh up the sword shall perish by the sword, and the written word remaineth."—The Daily Mirror.
But it hath been a little damaged in the interval.
"It may be estimated the Germans opposing our troops represented an average concentration of more than four men to every yard of front."—Liverpool Echo.
Never could it have been done with four pre-war Germans!
"Up to July 26 1,559 lists had been issued officially of German casualties. Each list contained 19,802 pages of three columns per page, and each column contained between 80 and 90 names of dead, wounded, and missing officers and men—a total of nearly 6,000,000."—Daily Sketch.
We trust our spirited contemporary has not joined the Hide-the-Truth Press, for we make the sum approximately 7,872,186,090.
Old Gentleman (to father of conscientious objector). "BUT SUPPOSING A GERMAN WAS GOING FOR YOUR SON WITH A BAYONET—WOULDN'T HE GO FOR THE GERMAN?"
Father of C.O. "AY! I DOUBT HE'D SAY SUMMAT. 'E'S GOT A SHARP TONGUE WHEN 'E'S VEXED."