'Tis a strange portent of the war
That every advertiser
Desires to be indebted for
His income to the KAISER;
At all events
He's got the goods for military gents.
"_Pypp's Playing-cards_," we learn, "dispel
The longest siege's tedium."
"Tin of Tobacco turns a shell--
Great feat by _Mascot_ (medium)."
"No ally feels
Hungry or tired who carries _Ponk's Pastilles_."
"The nicest present you can get
To soothe the soldier's nerve is
Our _Black Maria_ cigarette--
The best for active service!"
"All haversacks
Should carry lumps of _Entente_ sealing-wax."
"Ask for our _French equivalent_
_Of British Oaths_. The French is
More chic. A pretty compliment
To _Piou-Piou_ in the trenches!
A boon untold
To Indian colonels suffering from the cold!"
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"Both persons have been taken prisoners and sent to Medan, where
they will be fried for having broken Holland's neutrality."
_Provinciale Groninger Courant._
A severe, but perhaps necessary, lesson.
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