Several Questions regarding an explosive magazine at Dinas Mawddwy have lately been addressed to the Ministry of Munitions.  Hitherto they have received rather cryptic replies, no one in the Department apparently being prepared to pronounce the name.  But this afternoon Mr. HOPE, after a few preliminary sentences to get his voice into condition, boldly blurted out, “Dinnus Mouthwy,” and received the tribute which the House always pays to true courage.

[Illustration:  MODIFIED MOTOR FACILITIES.

STAFF-OFFICERS PASSING THROUGH WHITEHALL ON THEIR WAY TO LUNCHEON.]

The LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, hitherto a dual personality, is now three single gentlemen rolled into one.  Mr. GEORGE LAMBERT has accepted the leadership of a new Liberal Party, and with Colonel GODFREY COLLINS and Mr. ALBION RICHARDSON as his attendant Whips, duly took his seat upon the Front Bench.  Someone challenged the intrusion of non-Privy Councillors into that sacred precinct.  But the SPEAKER dismissed the objection with the remark, “There is more room upon that bench than on any other, you know.”  It is expected that, in contradistinction to the “Wee Frees,” the new Party will be known as the “Auld Lichts.”

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    “It is impossible to plough on account of the large number of
    unexploded shells and bombs buried in the soil.  These are now
    being employed by the Engineers.”—­Evening Paper.

We trust they will manage to avoid the traditional fate of the engineer.

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UNEMPLOYMENT NOTES.

Government unemployees at present engaged in drawing their weekly donation are requested to call at the Labour Exchange every day at 10 A.M.  Morning dress.

It is not permissible for applicants to send their wives, valets or chauffeurs to represent them.

Smoking is not prohibited, but applicants are requested not to offer tobacco, cigarettes or cigars to the officials.

Arrangements are to be made to provide entertainment by means of concert parties and motor-trips; also newspapers and periodicals, in which, to avoid annoyance, the “Situations Vacant” column has been blacked out.

It is desirable that applicants should not wear fur coats.  The present fashion does not go beyond a grey tweed lounge suit, with white spats and velours hat.

A limited number of openings are offered to any who care to act as batmen to unemployed munition-workers.

A doctor is in future to be kept at every Labour Exchange to render first-aid to those who should be offered a situation.

Applicants are requested not to tease the officials.

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JARGON.

From a speech at a Medical conference:—­

“He was ashamed of the term ‘shell-shock.’  It was a bad word, and should be wiped out of the vocabulary of every scientific man.  It was really molecular abnormality of the nervous system, characterised by abnormal reactions to ordinary stimuli.”—­Daily Paper.

We must try to remember this.