THE BELGIAN "MENACE."
KAISER. "IF I GRANT YOU MY GRACIOUS PARDON, WILL YOU PROMISE NOT TO TERRORISE ME AGAIN?"
["Belgium would be required to give a guarantee that any such menace as that which threatened Germany in 1914 would in future be excluded."—German Foreign Secretary to Papal Nuncio at Munich.]
RAID JOTTINGS.
A good deal of dissatisfaction is expressed with the state of the cellars to which people have been invited during the raids. "Surely," writes one of our correspondents, "it is a scandal that, at this time in the world's history, some cellars should be totally destitute of wine. That there should be no coal in the coal-cellars is understandable enough; but to ask the timid public into empty wine cellars is a travesty of hospitality."