GOOSE STEP ON LONDON BRIDGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 7, 8 January 1916, Page 21

GOOSE STEP ON LONDON BRIDGE.

ONXiX A DREAM. The most popular book of the present Berlin book season is "Hindenburg's March to London," which purports to be a descrip- ! tloh of the closing days of the war. It has already ran Into many editions. The special correspondent of the Ex-1 change In Switzerland (tends tlie following translation of some extracts from the last chapter, in which the author describes the passage of the vast German army through the principal streets of London: — At Croydon Hindenburg passes the troops In review. The march across London Bridge-begins at 9 a.m. precisely. Hindenburg, seated on his horse, with Count Zeppelin at his side, watches intently the first regiments as they swing past doing the goose step. The Wellington and Charing Cross Bridges bad been demolished on the previous day by heavy German artillery, and all the traffic— tramway cars, amnlbnees, tradesmen's vans, cabs, and luxurious motor cars -was concentrated tipon London Bridge. Thousands swarmed on the tops of omnibuses in order to get a glimpse of Hlndenburg and the "Hune." The troops marched through King William Street to the "richest nlace In the world," that between tire Mansion House, the Bank, and the Stock Exchange. Unkempt, worried-looking membere of the Stock Exchange are huddled together, angry but curious. Past SL Paul's up OTeet Street, along the Strand, through the Mull into dnbland, the conquerors march. Mournful clubmen peer out at the tn Hindenburg and some of the higher offices visit the Houses of Parliament The iromanco closes with Hlndenburg-e j,rpto his *ooi»: "Soldiers, after beating a world of enemies you are blvonack- , T s in front of Buckingham Palace.'

The old-fashioned liar had an easy time inventing things. In his day the truth was not so startling as now.—Toledo "Blade." Some men never get up In the world bocause they want someone to boost them before they will attempt to climb. The woman who knows Just when and how .to make a scene is not nearly so clever as the woman who knows Jnst when and how not to make a scene.

The more a man ha& to say the less he has to say that's worth delphia "Inquirer." IAH women demand the admiration of men, but only ft limited number command It ■ After an experience with tho telephone this morning ■Wβ felt like going flshlng, Jnst so as to foe at tJie end of a line that was not busy.—"Vancouver Province."

Endh of us hns his TKtrt to play, and it all comes <l<xwn to a question of trencn of TCtrinch.—Sir Herbert Tree. A married life with no tiffs at nil wonia (Show a complete absence of character on ■both sides.—air Justice 'Avoiy. The trouble with some of ns te that we make the Inventory of ourselves with n carpenter'a pencil, and of other folk with a hair-flne pen.