The financial expert of The Observer, in referring to the War Loan, said:—"From all over the country the small investor rallied in his thousands." But he had just said that "the applicants were enormous." Possibly the truth is somewhere between the two—say about 11½ stone.
A football pavilion in Bromley Road, Catford, was entirely destroyed by fire last week. We are trying to bear the blow bravely.
There would seem to be no limit to the influence of the Censor. Here is the latest example of his activities:—
"MEXICO
General Blanco Evacuates
The Capital."
We must confess that we fail to see what British interest is served by withholding the General's name.
The German Imperial Chancellor has now repeated, in the presence of a full-dress meeting of the Reichstag, the old falsehood about Great Britain being responsible for the War. This, we believe, is what is known as Lying in State.