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The report comes from a German source that the resignation of Count tisza was procured by Marshal Von Hindenburg.  It is a curious commentary on the fickleness of the multitude that the Kaiser isn’t even mentioned as having taken a hand in the matter.

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A branch of the Pan-German League has decided that Germany must not conclude peace until the whole of the British Empire is annexed by the Kaiser.  It is the sincere hope of the all-highest that the British Empire will understand that in this matter his hand has been forced.

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Dealing with the United States Navy, an American journalist says that every recruit must learn to stand squarely on his own feet.  The attention of Mr. Charles Chaplin has already been drawn to this passage.

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Sir Herbert tree has arrived in England, and, according to The New York Telegraph, Mr. Charles Chaplin is now demanding a higher price for his work.

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A strange case is reported from Northumberland, where a man who was taken ill last weak admitted that he had not been eating rhubarb tops.

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With reference to the complaint of an allotment-holder that cats cause more damage than the pea weevil, a correspondent sends the following hint as to the treatment of cats on the allotment:  “These should be sprayed with a good shot-gun and planted out in soft soil.”

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Leading provision-merchants state that there will soon be cheese-queues outside the grocers’ shops.  One enterprising firm of multiple shop grocers is said to have already engaged a troupe of performing cheeses to keep the customers amused during the long wait.

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[Illustration:  The fatal Lure.]

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     New Combination Head-gear for Troops.

     “Service dress caps in wear and those in stock will be used up and
     worn side by side with the soft caps.”—­Army Council Instruction
     No. 824.

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     “To a school in Battersea to-day the High Commissioner for New
     Zealand presented an Australian flag sent by the school-children of
     Dunedin.”—­Evening News.

The children of Dunedin seem to have accepted in a very excellent spirit the annexation of New Zealand by Australia, of which this is the first news to reach us.

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“The Germans wore absolutely dismayed at the promptness of President Wilson’s rupture of relations.  Then followed an amazing attempt to brow-beat Mr. Gerard into singing a revised version of the Prusso-American Treaty of 1799.”—­Planters’ and Commercial Gazette (Mauritius).

Happily Mr. Gerard refused to oblige.