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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 - Various Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917

      Author: Various

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 152, MAY 9, 1917***

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      PUNCH,

      OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      Vol. 152.

      May 9, 1917.

      CHARIVARIA.

      According to a Rome paper, HINDENBURG has requested that all the Royal Princes shall be removed from the West Front. The original plan of protecting Their Royal Highnesses by moving the Front further West has been definitely abandoned.

      The Vossische Zeitung informs us that the late BISSING was a veritable angel of mercy. The KAISER is wondering who started this scandal.

      We are back in the days, says Mr. PRETYMAN, when the Mercantile Marine and the Navy were one. If these are the official figures that the Press has been clamouring for, the bread tickets will come none too soon.

      Highland sheep-raisers are said to be feeding their lambs by hand on a mixture of hot milk and whisky. The little patients appear to take kindly to the diet, and one or two have even been understood to suggest that it seems rather a waste of milk.

      The Imperial Government, we are informed, repudiates responsibility for the attack by one of its airmen on the Dutch village of Zierikzee, on the ground that, notwithstanding repeated warnings to abandon the unneutral practice, the village persisted in looking like a portion of the Isle of Wight.

      Saluting is said to have been abolished in the Russian Army. Our own military authorities, on the other hand, declare that it would be unwise to abolish a practice in which the inventive genius of the young soldier has so much scope.

      Many Germans, says Mr. GERARD, have food concealed in their wainscoting. But very few of them have any noticeable quantity behind their dadoes.

      To mark the disapproval of a tax on complimentary theatre tickets several lifelong supporters of the British drama have already requested leading managers to take their names off the free list.

      We learn from the Press, among the things that matter, that for two years a well-known Wye Valley angler has been trying to catch a certain large trout and at last he has succeeded in securing it. We understand that the trout died with a smile on his face.

      We hope it is not due to the distraction of war, but America seems to be losing her dash. At a baseball match in New York the other day only three of the spectators were injured.

      At the Shoreditch Tribunal a firm appealing for a man stated that he was a director, traveller, buyer, manager, acted as cashier and costs clerk, loaded the vans, kept the place clean and made himself generally useful. It is just as well that they added the last item, or people might have thought he was one of those slackers we hear to much about.

      News comes from Athens that KING CONSTANTINE is realising his position and contemplates abdication in favour of the CROWN PRINCE GEORGE. It is not yet known in whose favour the CROWN PRINCE GEORGE will abdicate.

      Phenomenal prices were again paid at CHRISTIE'S last week for pearls. It is thought that official action will have to be taken to combat the belief, widely held in munition-making circles, that pearls dissolved in champagne are beneficial to the complexion.

      When we go to the Front we become the worst criminals, writes a German soldier taken prisoner at Trescault. We appreciate this generous attempt to shield his superiors, but cling to our belief that the worst criminals are still a good way

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