THE "BLOCKADE JOKE" HAS MET WITH INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS
(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) v (Received February 9, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Bth February. The Daily Mail comments: "tt has often been said of different nations that they rarely appreciato the same jokes, but the joke of the 'German blockade' has met with instantaneous success. What perhaps particularly tickles the world's sense of humour is the crudity of the attempt to frighten not only Britain but the United States, two countries inhabited by peoples who are not commonly supposed to mistake turnips, for spooks, or lose their nerve without at least some provocation."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 7
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101THE "BLOCKADE JOKE" HAS MET WITH INSTANTANEOUS SUCCESS Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1915, Page 7
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