Big Bertha Outranged.
"Two Russian battleships and some cruisers set out from Cronstadt to meet the British warships in the Baltic, and were fired on from the Flemish coast."—Yorkshire Paper.
"After four incessant years across Dora's knee the peace New Year ought surely to hold something good in its kindly lap for well-strafed automobilists."—Sketch.
But after four years across Dora's knee the New Year is probably not thinking about its lap, but quite the reverse.
"The announcement of a ball in Brussels gave plenty of scope for imaginative scribes to quote, in some cases almost correctly, the lines about 'there was a scene of revelry by night.'"—"Mr. Gossip" in "The Daily Sketch."
"MR. GOSSIP," too, quotes "almost correctly."
It is hoped that if M. PADEREWSKI becomes President of the new Polish Republic he will experience the truth of the old proverb, Chi va piano va sano.
