ANOTHER ATROCITY.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 25, 21 February 1920, Page 23

ANOTHER ATROCITY.

("Bolsheviks Evacuate Pskoff."— Newspaper Headline.) 0 Bolsheviks, 0 Bolsheviks, Although your methods are not mine. 1 tolerated all your tricks, But this is .where I draw the line! Our Press you shall not castigate And true-born English gullets rowel By half the alphabet in spate, Unsteadied by a Christian vowel I What, resurrect that fearful phase Of consonants in solid clots . That back in old steam-roller days Tied British gizzards up in knots! Revive that autumn, now remote, When surgeons took a saw and chisel To rid some rash obstructed throat Of words like Lwow and Przemysl!* No no—they will not dOj I say, These mixtures of the sneeze and cough— I bore you Avhen you came to prey But not Avhen you remain to Pskoff. Go back to spots like Petrograd That British tongues may safely mention, Or I shall plump, like Churchill's lad, For unrestricted intervention. *"Lwow" (once Lemberg) can be barked in one syllable by any intelligent dog after a little practice; and "Przemysl" is pronounced "Pizzlemizzle" by all the best people. —Lucio. Manchester "Guardian."