5th Hole (Douaumont to Verdun—­long heart-breaking test of golf.)—­CROWN PRINCE gives first-hand exhibition of frightfulness and cuts down caddy with a niblick, the miserable fellow having coughed as C.P. was about to drive.  MEHMED, who is now taking a larger size in fezzes by reason of performance at last tee, puts eight new balls into the Meuse Burn and gives up.  FRANCIS-JOSEPH, still too full of sand to play hole, awaits arrival of vacuum-cleaner.  FERDINAND, after twice exploiting the Big Push brassie shot, is suspended for cutting the cloth.  C.P. abandons hole (or what is left of it) after missing two-inch putt.

5_p.m._—­Match all square at the turn.  Exhaustive search now being made for MEHMED, who was last seen (and heard) seeking his ball in the Mametz Wood.  Ominous silence for past five minutes.  Grave reason to fear that he has cut down entire wood upon himself.

5.30 p.m.—­MEHMED rescued from debris but will take no further part in contest, following match on a stretcher.  FRANCIS-JOSEPH now shows signs of extreme exhaustion and plays all shots from bath-chair.  FERDINAND, who asserts himself a match for both his opponents, won tenth hole (Helles Hell—­hundred-yards carry over dense undergrowth) with brassie shot that ricochetted off five spectators and two trees, finishing up three inches from the pin.  By careful putting he got down in two more.  CROWN PRINCE has just thrown away third set of clubs.

[Illustration:  “A BRILLIANT RUN-THROUGH CANNON.”]

6 p.m.—­FRANCIS-JOSEPH has retired.  Can no longer swing a club, and has booked bed in camp hospital.  CROWN PRINCE still awaiting fresh set of clubs.  Will now play FERDINAND a single.

6.15 p.m.—­FERDINAND, who has been granted permission to cue on the greens, has just won eleventh hole by a brilliant run-through cannon off CROWN PRINCE’s ball.

6.30 p.m.—­FERDINAND has retired.

7.10 p.m.—­FERDINAND has retired about two miles.  Cause of withdrawal occurred on fourteenth green, when F. mis-cued and blamed CROWN PRINCE’s shadow.  C.P., in his frightfulness, struck F. savagely in the face with a baffy and threw F.’s rubber tee into Salonika Pond.  When F. remonstrated, C.P. took the offensive and F. was forced to yield ground.  When last seen was yielding ground rapidly and in danger of having his lines of communication cut.

[Illustration:  “TAKING A LARGER SIZE IN FEZZES.”]

7.50 p.m.—­CROWN PRINCE to continue solus.  Going out for record of the course.

8.10 p.m.—­Record abandoned, CROWN PRINCE having thrown away or broken every available club in the St. Helena Sector.”

Governor’s report (resumed).—­“In the not too sanguine hope that my prisoners will one day grasp the meaning of the term ‘Sportsmanship,’ I have given my consent to the holding of a cricket-match at an early date.  I am reliably informed that in HINDENBURG the Austro-German XI. has a remarkable bowler of the googly order.  On some of the Riga grounds, when two feet in mud, he was quite unplayable.  FERDINAND, who will captain the other side, is very fast for several overs, though his action is not above suspicion.  Great efforts are being made to get FRANCIS-JOSEPH to keep wicket.  I trust to include an account of the match in a subsequent report.”