Title:  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152.  January 17, 1917

Author:  Various

Release Date:  November 6, 2004 [EBook #13966]

Language:  English

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PUNCH,

Or the London charivari.

Vol. 152.

January 17, 1917.

CHARIVARIA.

“Time to deal finally with Tino,” announced an evening paper last week, thereby doing a great deal to allay a disquieting impression that the matter was to be left to eternity.

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“King Constantine,” says the Berliner Tageblatt, “has as much right to be heard as a common criminal.”  We agree, though few of his friends have put it quite so bluntly.

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The Lokalanzeiger devotes three columns of a recent issue to the advantages of the British blockade as a compulsory refiner of the German figure.  A still more desirable feature of it, which the Lokalanzeiger omits to draw attention to, is its efficacy in reducing the German swelled head.

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We know of no finer example of the humility of true greatness than the KAISER’S decision to allow the War to continue.

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A Berlin newspaper says that after the coronation of the Emperor Karl at Budapest one of the jewels was missed from the Crown.  Fortunately for the relations between the two Empires, the German crown Prince is in a position to prove an alibi.

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To facilitate the delivery of milk, a certain Dairymen’s Association has suggested to the Food Controller that they should have recourse to a pool.  In most districts, however, recourse will be had as usual to
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Lord RHONNDA’S appeal to the public to keep tame rabbits has been enthusiastically taken up by all the smart people, and enterprising maisons are already offering driving coats, sleeping baskets and silk pyjamas for the little pets at prices ranging from two guineas upwards.

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The tallest giraffe in the world has just died at the Zoo.  The animal came from Kordofan, where, Mr. Pocock tells us, all the really tall ones have been told.

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It is reported that General von BISSING is retiring from Belgium as his health shows no signs of improvement.  The blood baths he has been taking have not afforded the expected relief.

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It was stated at a London Tribunal that the War Office has just given a contract for 2,400 waste-paper baskets.  If further evidence was required of our unshakable determination to carry the War to a successful conclusion, it is surely provided by this indication of the extent to which the public are helping the War Office with suggestions as to how to win it.