Last comes 'Erbert, proud as NELSON,
With a smile and nothing else on.
Is it Fortune's final stroke,
Or the Skipper's little joke?
As the ladder they ascend
Comes the bugle "Make and Mend."
"A flotilla of Portuguese warships is actively maintaining the blockade between the mouth of the Volga and that of the Minho."
Daily Paper.
The report that the Bolshevists have borrowed a "Big Bertha" and are meditating a bombardment of Lisbon by way of reprisal is as yet unconfirmed.