HUNNISH CANTICLE.

"KAISER WANTS NEW NATIONAL HYMN."
"_Westminster Gazette_" _Heading._

"He shall have it."--_Mr. Punch._

GOD of our Fathers, God of old,
Who hast for us such sympathy,
Cast as Thou art in German mould,
Again we raise our voice to Thee:
Omnipotence, we need Thy hand
In air, on sea, canal and land!

The English (who, Thou knowest, hide
Contemptibly upon an isle)
No doubt on Thee have also cried,
According to their native guile;
Presumption could no further go
In those who plunged the world in woe.

Thou wouldst not hearken to a race
Possessed of that inhuman Fleet,
So cruel, arrogant and base,
So steeped in rancour and deceit.
'Twas they, remember, they alone,
Who forced this Burden on Thine own!

Bless, rather, us! our arms! our cause!
Pour on us Thy protecting love!
Sanction our fractures of Thy laws,
By U,s beneath, by Zeps above!
Relieve us in this dark impasse;
Bless all our efforts; bless our gas!

Deal gently with us should we tend--
Presuming as Thy favoured Race,
All flushed to own so great a Friend--
To dereliction into grace!
Deal gently with us, Lord, should we
Once deviate to decency!

And Him, from Whom such blessings flow,
Our WILHELM, first of Sons of Light,
Whose one ambition is to show
Mankind the rightfulness of Might;
Bless Him, and forward His device
To make an Earthly Paradise!

And should some other star up there
(For all the stellar space is Thine)
Demand Thy more immediate care,
And thus divert Thee from the Rhine,
Thou need'st but mention it, and He
Thy Viceroy hero will gladly be!

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"WANT OF FOOD.

Salonika.

On returning to Salonika after an absence of a month, I
find the situation much relieved as a result of the
deportation of the enemy Consuls and the energetic
measures adopted to clear the town of the numerous pies
previously infesting it."--_Provincial Paper._

The headline seems justified.

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"I bought a brochure, which explained that the Emperor
was not physically ill, but his metal condition was
upset owing to the war."

_Evening Paper._

Another allusion, we suppose, to the depreciation of the Mark.

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"Lord Crewe and Lord Lansdowne