NEWS AND NOTES
"Look at Sweden, look at Norway, look at Denmark, look, at Holland, look at Belgium—five small kingdoms", every one of them outraged by German power, whose fate, should Germany succeed hi this war, would not be difficult to foresee," said Lord ltosebery in a recent, speech at Edinburgh. "We are lighting for Norway, cruelly outraged at this moment with the massacre of her merchant seamen, unrelentlessly pursued on the high seas. W'e are fighting-for Sweden, who at any rate at any moment may find herself in the same position. We are fighting for every neutral nation, and we are fighting for one. which is not weak, the United States, for if we were vanquished in the war, which Heaven forbid, the United States would be the next to suffer from the aggressive and unscrupulous power of. Prussia." Such phrases as "Manchester man" and "Liverpool gentleman" always give rise to queries as to their origin. According to an old Liverpool stage coach driver, however, Lancashire appears to be the home of such expressions, for, when he was asked, as he approached the last stage, what passengers he carried, he replied: "I've gotten a felly fra Wiggin, a chap fra Bowton', a mon i'ra Manchester, an' a gentleman fra Liverpool."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1917, Page 6
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