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Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914

Author: Various

Editor: Owen Seaman

Release Date: October 12, 2007 [eBook #22989]

Language: English

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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 146

APRIL 1, 1914

CHARIVARIA.

We are sorry to hear that the PREMIER is suffering from a troublesome
Gough.

* * *

Poor Mr. ASQUITH, as though he had not already worries enough, is
getting into trouble for sending an exclusive statement to _The Times_.
He now stands convicted by his own party of being a _Times_-server.

* * *

_The Premier Magazine_ is announced for sale. Is this, we wonder, the
Powder Magazine on which he has been sitting?

* * *

At one moment it began to look as if the Admiralty, after all, was going
to change its mind and we were to have Grand Man[oe]uvres this year--off
the coast of Ireland.

* * *

There are rumours that the Suffragettes are now preparing to blow up the
whole of Ireland, as they find that that little country has during the
past few days been distracting public attention from their cause.

* * *

An appeal is being made for funds to enable the battlefield of Waterloo
to be preserved. A handsome donation has, it is said, been offered by
one of our most enterprising railway companies, the only condition made
being that the name shall be altered to