"It is possible," says a contemporary, "that an invention will one day be forthcoming which will make a clean sweep of the submarine." Meanwhile we must expect him to go on acting like the dirty sweep he is.
To meet the paper shortage, Austrian editors have determined to economise by reducing the daily reports of victories.
Le Matin states that at a Grand Council of War sharp disagreement on the conduct of operations arose between the Kaiser and Hindenburg. The Marshal, we understand, insisted upon the right to organise his own defeats without any assistance from the All-highest-but-one.
A London dairyman has been heavily fined for selling water containing a large percentage of milk.
"To tell the honest truth," said the Hon. John Collier, giving evidence in the Romney case, "we artists do not think much of the art critics." It is this dare-devil attitude which distinguishes your real genius.