The Admiralty does not propose to publish an official account of the Battle of Jutland. Indeed the impression is gaining ground that this battle will have to be cancelled.


We are asked to deny that, following upon the publication of Mirrors of Downing Street, by "A Gentleman with a Duster," Lord Kenyon is about to dedicate to Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny a book entitled A Peer with a Knuckle-Duster.


"Mr. Lloyd George seems to have had his hair 'bobbed' recently," says a gossip-writer in a Sunday paper. Mr. Hodges still sticks to the impression that it was really two-bobbed.


"Cigars discovered in the possession of Edward Fischer, in New York," says a news item, "were found to contain only tobacco." Very rarely do we come across a case like that in England.


"Water," says a member of the L.C.C., "is being sold at a loss." But not in our whisky, we regret to say.