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Title: Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914

Author: Various

Release Date: February 15, 2009 [EBook #28092]

Language: English

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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.