  "The enemy is not yet subdued," announced the Kaiser in his New Year's address to his troops. It is gratifying to have this rumour confirmed from a source so unimpeachable. Prince Buelow is finding himself de trop at Rome. "Man wants but little here, Buelow," he is being told. "Stick it!" it may be remembered, was General von Kluck's Christmas message as published in a German newspaper. The journal in question is evidently read in Constantinople, for the Turks are now stated to have sent several thousand sacks of cement to the Egyptian frontier with which to fill up the Suez Canal. After all, it is pointed out, there is not very much difference between the reigning Sultan of Turkey and his predecessor. The one is The Damned, and the other The Doomed. With reference to the "free fight" between Austrians and Germans in the concentration camp at Pietermaritzburg, which Reuter reported the other day, we now hear that the fight was not entirely free. Several of the combatants, it seems, were afterwards fined. The latest English outrage, according to Berlin, was done upon the German officer who attempted to escape in a packing-case. It is said that he has been put back in his case, which has been carefully soldered up, and then as carefully mislaid. Another typical German lie is published by the Frankfurter Zeitung. Describing the First Lord this sheet says:—"Well built, he struts about elegantly dressed...." Those who remember our Winston's little porkpie hat will resent this charge. An awfully annoying thing has happened to the Vossische Zeitung. Our enterprising little contemporary asked three Danish professors to state in what way they were indebted to German science, and they all gave wrong answers. They said they were also indebted to English science. "HOUNDS IN A WORKHOUSE." It was, of course, inevitable that the hunts should suffer through the war. The Evening Standard has been making enquiries as to the effect of the War on the membership of the various Clubs. The report from the AthenÆum was "The War has not affected the club at all." Can it be that the dear old fellows have not heard of it yet? "Business as usual" is evidently Paraguay's motto. They are having one of their revolutions there in spite of the War. The Tate Gallery authorities have now placed the pictures they value most in the cellars of that institution, and the expression on the face of any artist who finds his work still on the wall is in itself a picture. ... all his New Year's gifts. Gallant attempt by a member of the British Expeditionary Force to do justice to all his New Year's gifts.] |
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