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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914 Author: Various Release Date: February 15, 2009 [EBook #28092] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH *** Produced by Neville Allen, Malcolm Farmer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: In the article "THE HELPMEET", various words and phrases have been struck through in the printed version. These passages are marked thus:- ~Maybe love was~ PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. VOL. 147 OCTOBER 7, 1914. CHARIVARIA. General VILLA has now declared war on President CARRANZA. Everybody's doing it. * * * Is there, we wonder, a single unfair weapon which the Germans have not used? It is now said that not infrequently a German band is made to play when the enemy's infantry advances to attack. * * * A regrettable mistake is reported from South London. A thoroughly patriotic man was sat upon by a Cockney crowd for declaring that the KAISER was a Nero. * * * Servia, _The Times_ announces, will in future be called Serbia in our contemporary's columns. We would suggest that in the same way Bavaria might be called Babaria. * * * All German soldiers are close-cropped. To show, apparently, that they have the courage of the conviction they deserve. * * * The German officers in France are said to be extremely careful as to what they eat, betraying a great fear of being poisoned. It is, of course, a fact that one grain of vermin-killer would dispose of any one of them. * * * It has been suggested that the explanation of the KAISER may be that he is a "throw-back." His parents were gentlefolk, but his ancestor, FREDERICK WILLIAM I., was a well-known undesirable. * * * It is now stated that the reason why the German troops destroyed the historic edifices of Louvain and Rheims was the KAISER'S order that no stone was to be left unturned to prove that the Germans are the apostles of Culture.
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