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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

VOL. 153

NOVEMBER 28, 1917






CHARIVARIA.

"How the Germans never got wind of it," writes a correspondent of the
British attack on the HINDENBURG line, "is a mystery." The failure of
certain M.P.'s to ask questions about it in Parliament beforehand may
have had something to do with it.

***

An order has been promulgated fixing the composition of horse chaff. The
approach of the pantomime season is thought to be responsible for it.

***

"We are particularly anxious," writes the Ministry of Food, "that
Christmas plum-puddings should not be kept for any length of time." A
Young Patriots' League has been formed, we understand, whose members are
bent on carrying out Lord RHONDDA'S wishes at any cost to their parents.

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Another birthplace of ST. GEORGE has been captured in Palestine. It is
now definitely established that the

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