" _"Planters and Commercial
Gazette" (Mauritius)._
"A Bolshevist wireless says the Reds captured Tagonrog,
Denikin's former headquarters, taking a huge booby."--_Same
Paper_.
The booby prize has apparently been awarded to the Reds, but we feel
that our contemporary might have put in a claim.
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[Illustration: THE FORGOTTEN CAUSE.
MAN IN THE STREET. "WELL, IF THE OTHER ALLIES SAY SO TOO, THERE MUST
BE SOMETHING IN IT. BUT _I_ ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD THE _GOVERNMENT_ WAS TO
BLAME FOR EVERYTHING."]
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ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT.
_Monday, March 8th_.--I should hesitate to call Sir HAMAR GREENWOOD
the _Pooh-Bah_ of the Ministry, though he has something of that
worthy's sublime self-confidence and his capacity for taking any
number of posts. The House, which knows him both as Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs and Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department
of the Board of Trade, was surprised to hear him answering questions
relating to the nascent oil-wells in the United Kingdom, and to learn
that he had become "Minister for Petroleum Affairs.
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