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... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 130 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Once MoreUntotheBreach. The Premier has met the constructive criticisms of a united nation generously, fairly, with good humour and with dignity. His re-formed War Cabinet was not built at the pistol point of Parliament. This time it has got to be all right, for the pages in our copy-book accidentally or negligently blotted have ...

... , Lights o London M'lady, in her sedan-chair, had a stalwart body guard to protect her and a linkman to light her way such luxury was for the very few. To-day, with means of lighting in plenty, a strange twist of fate forces upon us the blackout. But when the lights return we shall see a transformation such as few of us to-day can appreciate; for electric discharge lighting waits upon a war ...

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... MOTLEY NOTES. By ALAN KEMP. Criminals All. The startled eye of many sufferers has recently been caught by an advertisement headed: Should We Go to Prison for Catching Colds? In Erewhon, the answer would have been clear and firm; in that enlightened country, disease was a felony, and I suppose a com mon cold-- as doctors contempt uously call this scourge of the human race-- was at least an ...

... By JOYCE DENNYS. MY DEAR ROBERT-- Whenever we meet Visitors they say to us, And how does your British Restaurant work down here? There isn't one, we reply, hanging our heads. What No British Restaurant they cry, looking at us askance as though we were the West Country Quislings. What you all need is' a Stick of Bombs to wake you up. Those people here whose homes have actually been ...

... A BATTERY OF OUR STALE OSTRICH-EGG THROWERS FOR ECONOMISING AMMUNITION IN DESERT WARFARE. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...