"What is needed is that we should have on each of the main lines of our overseas communications at least one ship that is faster than anything else afloat."—Manchester Guardian.
Is it not extraordinary that the Admiralty should never have thought of this simple device?
From a theatre programme:—
"All the Male Members of the above Company are either attested under Lord Derby's Scheme, or are otherwise Ineligible for Service."
The erroneous impression that to be attested is the short road to ineligibility has evidently spread from the platform to the stage.