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THE Margate " Gotha Souvenir " auction sale, to be inau- gurated by the town's Mayor this week, should bring in a good round sum in aid of the local charities, for the benefit of which about 1,500 parcels have been gotten together, with the permission of the Admiralty. OUR Volunteers, who are only too anxious to get going at something of practical value to the country, should be very helpful, if properly organised, in connection with the air-raids on London. WITHOUT doubt the substitution of the bugle for giving notice of " All clear " after a raid is a substantial improve- ment upon repeating the police whistle warning to " take cover." Most folk who might have ventured forth after a time for observation purposes, wisely taking no chances, promptly dived back into their cover positions, upon hearing the whistle for the second time. IN the meantime the whole system of warnings is again being considered. " The louder the guns, The fewer the Huns." is Miss Shirley Kellogg's view of the London defence " barrage." PROBABLY the German advertisement expert for Hun war- loans is a sufficiently good judge of the German people to gauge their weak spots successfully. In this connection a Cologne newspaper upon the eve of the closing of the last loan, published in type across a whole page the following advertisement :— " If next Sunday we could get sausage soup with beans, wouldn't that give us all pleasure ? Alas ! such pleasures are only possible- in peace time. To get peace we must have money to fight until our enemies see vthat their efforts are bound to be fruitless." Pending the arrival of those halcyon days of peace, the Huns are likely to get beans minus the sausage soup. QUITE a picturesque fight has been in operation up Islington way with three candidates in the field, including Mr. Pem- berton Billing's " yigilante " candidate, Mr. A. Baker, who is officially described as " Independent." " P.B." in this case defines " Independent *' as embodying an effort to " Purify Politics." " Pulverise Potsdam." " Petrify Huns." THE result of the Poll was not very unexpected, but if that's what the return to the House of Commons of " Vigilantes " really means, let the thing go on, ST. JOHN'S Ambulance Brigade needed a motor ambulance for use by its Limehouse Section for service during air raids. A house to house collection in Limehouse and Stepney has resulted in £200 being raised towards the £400 needed. IN order to familiarise the public with the achievements of the British Navy and Air Service, Major Corbett-Smith. R.A., with the cordial assent of the Department of Infor- mation, is undertaking lecturing tours during the winter. The title of the lectures will be " With Our Navy," and they are being given in the public interest. All fees will be devoted to naval war charities. Communications should be addressed to Mr. G. Christy, Outer Temple, W.C.2. THE way to " scotch " Prussianism. Apropos the " To raid or not to raid " controversy raging in some of the dailies, between bishops, their satellites and the public, Mr. Norman Clough, from North Wales, asks " What are reprisals ? " and supplies the very suggestive answer in the same line as follows : " In July last a correspondent wrote thus to the Arch- bishop of Canterbury : We want to see the (German) streets run red with blood, and the women and children reduced to pulp. " Now, the Rev. Mr. Chasubel, whose diocesan will not allow him to use ceremonial incense, and the Rev. Erastus- Brown, who has just seen the desirable living of Otium-cum- Digge given to a less worthy man than he, may take joy in having an anonymous smack at their bishop, but they are not more desirous to bedabble Romish vestments or Geneva gowns with the blood of German babies than is the w«ar»r Diverting a River.—The Lord Mayor, Sir W. H. Dunn, perform- ing the ceremony of diverting the Cardinal Wolsey River at the Whitehead Aero- drome last week. The speaker by the side of the Lord Mayor is Mr. Whitehead. B H H S • • K H E • • B •t B ,'' • :, .••:» •. m a a 1112
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