Portsmouth Town Council has carried, by eleven votes to nine, a Labour amendment refusing to place official guide-books to Pretoria in the public library unless the nine deportees are allowed to return to South Africa. General Botha could hardly have foreseen this result of his action, and it will be interesting to see what happens now.
"Poison after a Duck's Egg."
Evening News.
Our cricketers would seem to be getting absurdly sensitive. This is scarcely the way to brighten the game.
The Guildhall Art Gallery is to be rebuilt. Some of the pictures there might be at the same time re-painted with advantage.
Apparently the Moody of the Moody-Manners Opera Company is gaining the upper hand. This Company opened its London season with The Dance of Death.