Permission is being sought from the French Government by a French wireless telegraph company to establish an experimental station on the Isle of St Pierre, near Newfoundland. "Mr Punch" has discovered the fact that the only places where the, cartoonist and caricaturist are aafe are Great Britain and the U&i f^d States. In France, he goes on to. say, the cartoonist ia likely to be challenged to a dueL In Germany there are laws about lese majeste. The Turkish caricaturist, if there is any such being, lived, on the average, one week after taking up the profession. In China, the funmaker is liable to dismemberment, the . occasion being made a public holiday, with fireworks in the evening. ..,.,;. .. •
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7700, 8 May 1903, Page 3
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117Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Star (Christchurch), Issue 7700, 8 May 1903, Page 3
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