"Two years ago The Daily Mail begged our sluggish authorities
to study the question of daylight air-raids as well as night
attacks. We pointed out their risk; we asked that the best
means of meeting them should be considered and the best method
of warning the public investigated. The result was that nothing
was done."--_Daily Mail_.
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"Of old was it written that they who taketh up the sword shall
perish by the sword, and the written word remaineth."--_The
Daily Mirror_.
But it hath been a little damaged in the interval.
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"It may be estimated the Germans opposing our troops represented
an average concentration of more than four men to every yard of
front."--_Liverpool Echo_.
Never could it have been done with four pre-war Germans!
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"Up to July 26 1,559 lists had been issued officially of German
casualties. Each list contained 19,802 pages of three columns
per page, and each column contained between 80 and 90 names of
dead, wounded, and missing officers and men--a total of nearly
6,000,000."--_Daily Sketch_.
We trust our spirited contemporary has not joined the Hide-the-Truth
Press, for we make the sum approximately 7,872,186,090.
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[Illustration: _Old Gentleman (to father of conscientious
objector)._ "BUT SUPPOSING A GERMAN WAS GOING FOR YOUR SON WITH A
BAYONET--WOULDN'T HE GO FOR THE GERMAN?"
_Father of C.O._ "AY! I DOUBT HE'D SAY SUMMAT. 'E'S GOT A SHARP TONGUE
WHEN 'E'S VEXED."]
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