Mr. Curtin has lost a great chance for talking of "War to the knife-and-fork." Possibly he was away in Germany at the time when this jeu d'esprit was invented.
"The Canadian papers are unanimous that the German peace proposals are premature, and will be refused saskatoon." —Examiner (Launceston, Tasmania).
We had not heard before that Germany had asked for Saskatoon, but anyway we are glad she is not going to get it.
From a schoolgirl's essay:—
"The Reconnaissance was the time when people began to wake up ... Friar Jelicoe was a very great painter; he painted angles."
Probably an ancestor of the gallant gentleman who recently had a brush with the enemy.