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AN UNFORTUNATE JUXTAPOSITION.
"Dr. ---- has RESUMED PRACTICE.
---- AND ----, UNDERTAKERS."
_West Australian_.
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CHARIVARIA.
According to President WILSON Germany also claims to be fighting for
the freedom of the smaller nations. Her known anxiety to free the
small nations of South America from the fetters of the Monroe Doctrine
has impressed the PRESIDENT with the correctness of this claim.
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Unfortunately Count REVENTLOW has gone and given away the secret that
Germany does not care a rap for the rights of the little nations. It
is this kind of blundering that sours your transatlantic diplomatist.
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General JOFFRE has been made a Marshal of France. While falling short
of the absolute omnipotence of London's Provost-Marshal the position
is not without a certain dignity.
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The announcement that the Queen of HUNGARY's coronation robe is to
cost over ?2,000 has had a distinctly unpleasant effect upon the
German people, who are wondering indignantly how Belgium is to be
indemnified if such extravagance is permitted to continue.
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