... . The 'Phone Scandal. THE Postmaster-General has at last awakened out of sleep with regard to the extent of the grievances under which the community has suffered in refe rence to the telephone. Last week he received a deputation from the National Union of Manufacturers, and after some unconvincing and incomplete apologies for the shortcomings of the existing service, he sought to distract ...

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... . Banzai London paid a warm welcome to her Imperial visitor, the Crown Prince of Japan, last week. He must have been astonished as well as impressed by the acclamations with which he was greeted by the crowd. No such demonstra tion would be permitted in Tokio, where the Emperor is regarded as a god, and where, as he passes through his people, none of them may break silence or look down upon ...

... Glsiclyg s aim My IE of FarlRo By Bss-iriry P^Ssho The small girl was dressed principally in a skirt that was an extremely bad adaptation from an original formerly in the collection of her mother. She was shrunken, shrewd, and smeary. She sat on the grass, and with one grimy paw imparted to a peram bulator that gentle motion backwards and forwards which is supposed to soothe the interned ...

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... Pictorial Politics,, Our Air Service. LORD Montagu of Beaulieu's speech at Birmingham last week confirmed in the most explicit manner the incompetence of our air service at the present moment to grapple with the dangers from enemy aircraft, which appears to be largely the outcome of con fusion between the Government and the sister services. The problem seems in reality easy to solve. The Navy ...

... Pictorial Politics*, Woman's Work. LORD SELBORNE'S appeal to the women of England comes at a very interesting and opportune moment. Now that we are all answering the questions of the national register, it is as well for the women of this country to take a wide view of the channels in which their services may be useful. Agriculture, as Lord Selborne states, pro vides a sphere in which women's ...

... Pretoria]! Politics. Welcome Sympathy. THE allied nations received with deep feelings of gratitude the message of sympathy which was addressed to them last week by 500 of the leading citizens of the United States. The signa tories were remarkable alike for their position and their repre sentative character, and their judgment, based very largely on a study of German docu ments and German ...

... The Open Sore. ALL good luck to the Govern ment in their new attempt to settle the Irish problem. Certainly if a proper atmo sphere in the House of Commons could have settled it, it would have been accomplished, as English and Scottish members are, regardless of party, anxious to get rid of the most harassing and perplexing of all our political problems. At the same time, this atmosphere of ...

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