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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914, by Various, Edited by Owen Seaman This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org 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 Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 146, APRIL 1, 1914*** E-text prepared by Malcolm Farmer, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22989-h.htm or 22989-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/8/22989/22989-h/22989-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/9/8/22989/22989-h.zip) Transcriber's note: The oe-ligature is represented in this text as "[oe]". 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
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