Mr. F. E. Smith (against his gallant instincts). "Permit me, Madam."
"We, as a party," says Mr. Keir Hardie in The Labour Leader, "surely have a right to make a special protest against this altogether useless and unnecessary conflict." The Kaiser's address, Keir, is Potsdam, Berlin (Germany).
We rejoice to hear that the thousand fresh herrings which a certain cosmopolitan financier purchased at the outbreak of the war to store up have one and all gone bad.
Paris now has a "Rue de Liége." And, in order to obviate any feeling of jealousy, a certain virulent microbe which has just been discovered by a Belgian scientist is, we hear, to be called the "Wilhelm Germ."
We trust that the Dutch are taking every precaution to protect the Palace of Peace at the Hague.