... CITY NOTES. FINANCE IN A FIRST-CLASS CARRIAGE. SEND the United States a couple of million copies of The Sketch every week, and thereby reduce the War Debt, The Engineer was proposing. America professes to be open to receive pay ment in kind, and, well, here's a practical way of doing it. In kind Where does the kindness come in, if you 're That sounds all right, said The Broker, but follow ...

... Near Ivangorod BY THE BYSTANDER IN POLAND i WHILE a thousand guns are thun dering near Warsaw, I write this in peace ful Novo-Alexandriya, near Ivangorod Fortress. I came here not to avoid Warsaw's thundering guns, but its thunder ing lies. Warsaw is full of citizens who buttonhole you with Have you heard the latest? and after this invariably comes the alarmist whopper that Hindenburg has ...

... . A well studed page from our artist's sketch book, which includes a number of celebrated sportsmen. Lord Wavertree wao formerly Colonel Hall-Walker, who temporarily adopted the title of Lord Osmaston CARICATURED BY FRED MAY ...

... . The Strike. A t the time of writing the miners' delegates have rejected the Government's final offer to the miners, and this strike, which is paralysing British industry and imperilling our future prosperity, seems likely to go on until ruin is reached. We agree with The Times in its reference to the rejection last week when it said that what is really wanted is the opinion of the miners ...

... . The Crisis. J t looked at the end of last week as if the country might be plunged into the middle of industrial civil war. If that had been so it would have been a deplorable manifestation of a breakdown in the proverbial com mon sense and equipoise of the British people. As Mr. W. H. Trewartha-James said at the annual dinner of the Federation of British Industries last week, The problem of ...

... By GUARDRAIL 11 TAKING everything into consideration, the class of year ling offered and the shortage of money, the bloodstock sales at Doncaster did extraordinarily well, though whether they would have been as good had the econom ical axe fallen a few days earlier is problematical. The blow, heavy as it is, is borne with the utmost possible cheerfulness by all, everyone being thankful that at ...

... My dream took me to the scene of a race-course accompanied by a lady friend, who must here be known as Mrs. H, and her little boy. She had recently lost her husband and was very worried at the time as to the future of her little son. He was an excellent little sportsman, being an exceptionally fine rider. A friend of hers, a race-horse owner, suggested making a jockey of A, which eventually ...

... At The Pictures Itos|iiic from Crime Freda Rrure Lorkliari Two young friends have been charging me with undue reserve in my appreciation of films of vice and violence, which is to say, as I readily concede, almost all contemporary first- class Hollywood films. If films peopled by perverts, dope-fiends, hypochondriacs, sadists and morons are well made and exciting that should be enough, they ...

... Pictorial Polities* Raids, Useful And Otherwise. THE citizens of London have again shared with the boys abroad the honour of coming into the actual battle line in this world war for freedom. The German authorities realise, of course, that no military benefit is gained by these air raids on the metropolis. Their psychology is so infantile that they may possibly imagine that the effect upon the ...

... Pictorial Politics,, Racing Resumed. THE domination of British politics in the past by a small section of fanatics was well illustrated by the stoppage of racing, and by the restrictions on the consumption and brewing of beer. Racing in the view of a small minority of fanatics was immoral and wasteful. Drink was the root of all evil. The consequences of the suppres sion of racing and these ...

... Pictorial Politics. The Election. IN a few days' time the result of the most momentous election in the history of this country will have been ascertained, and we hope and believe that Mr. Lloyd George will be returned to the House of Commons with an overwhelming majority, which will allow him to go full steam ahead with the difficult problem of winning the peace. It is a matter of deep ...

... PICTORIAL POLITICS. Order First. IT will be a relief to the loyalists living in Ireland to hear from the lips of the Prime Minister him self that it was the intention of the Government to maintain law and order throughout that country. As was generally anticipated, the attempt to get a new Home Rule Bill through Parliament has been postponed until next year, although at the time of writing the ...