"Owing to congestion on the railways there is a food shortage in Petrograd, which has led some of the less irresponsible citizens to demonstrate during the session of the Council of the Empire and the Duma."—Daily Sketch.
Subsequent news shows that "less irresponsible" was not a misprint but a prophecy.
Sympathetic Newsboy (to proprietor of Coffee Stall.) "WOT YER TRYIN' TO DO WIV THE OLD 'OTEL, GUVNER? TAKIN' IT 'OME FOR FEAR OF 'AVIN' IT COMMANDEERED?"
"It is claimed that about thirty Merman firms construct the Diesel motors originally used for submarines."—Daily Telegraph.
We wish these motors a speedy return to the fishy scenes of their origin.