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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156.

FEBRUARY 26, 1919

CHARIVARIA.

"GERMANY," says Count RANTZAU, "cannot be treated as a second-rate
nation." Not while it is represented by tenth-rate noblemen.

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People are now asking who the General is who has threatened not to
write a book about the War?

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On Sunday week, at Tallaght, Co. Dublin, seven men attacked a
policeman. The campaign for a brighter Sunday is evidently not
wanted in Ireland.

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The United States Government is sending a Commission to investigate
industrial conditions in the British Isles. Mr. LLOYD GEORGE, we
understand, has courteously offered to try to keep one or two
industries going until the Commission arrives.

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"Everything that happened more than a fortnight ago," says Mr. GEORGE
BERNARD SHAW in _The Daily News_, "always is forgotten in this land
of political trifling." We must draw what comfort we can from the
reflection that Mr. SHAW himself happened more than a fortnight ago.

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"Margarine," says an official notice, "can be bought anywhere
after to-day." This is not the experience of the man who entered
an ironmonger's shop and asked for a couple of feet of it.

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A woman who threatened to murder a neighbour was fined one shilling at
Chertsey. We shudder to think