Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for the America Cup has been accepted by the New York Yacht Club. It appears that neither Mr. Secretary Daniels nor "President" de Valera was consulted.
Widespread alarm has been caused in London by the report that a certain famous artist has threatened to paint a Futurist picture of a typical O.B.E.
A Dutch paper reminds us that the ex-Crown-Prince has taken a Berlin University degree. We can only suppose that nobody saw him take it.
In the case of a will recently admitted to probate it was stated that the testator had disposed of over seven hundred thousand pounds in less than a hundred words. It is not expected that the Ministry of Munitions will take this lying down.
It is said that unless the new Unemployment Insurance is an improvement on the present rates quite a number of deserving people will be thrown into work.