Asked by some American journalists where the Peace Conference would be held, Dr. Sven Hedin is reported to have said, "Peace will be dictated from Berlin." And so say all of us!
Relations between Potsdam and Sofia are said to be badly strained. Three days after the Kaiser had issued his celebrated manifesto, "To my noble and heroic Serbian people," Ferdinand in the Sobranje was publicly denouncing the Serbians as obstinate, treacherous, and tyrannical. The Kaiser considers this conduct extremely tactless, and threatens, if it continues, to spell Bulgarian with a "V."
All hitherto-published explanations of the threatened German attack on the Suez Canal are hereby cancelled. The fact is that the Kaiser's fleet is increasing so rapidly that it has outgrown its present accommodation.
During the visit of Mr. Ford's Ark to Bergen the following notice was posted up at the Grand Hotel:—"All members of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition are requested to call for their laundry at the Grand Hotel, Room 408, Tuesday evening after supper. This notice supersedes the original plan to have the laundry delivered to each individual hotel." It may also explain why the members of the expedition have since washed their dirty linen in public.
Some of the pilgrims on the Oscar II. were much annoyed at the prohibition of card-playing on board. "What is the use," they asked, "of crying Pax when there are none?"