PARS FROM "PUNCH."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11254, 7 December 1914, Page 4

PARS FROM "PUNCH."

"Five hundred German prisoners were landed in Dublin yesterday afternoon, and conveyed under escort to Templemoro, County Tipperary."— Newcastle Daily Journal. It's a long, lpng way, but they've got there at last. V Austrians are being urged to send newspapers to the front to serve as chest-protectors for the troops. If possible the papers should be German, as these lie best V Strong drinks have now been prohibited all over Russia, and it looks as if Germany is not the only country whose future lies on the water. " When the Kaiser goes to places beyond the railway," we are told, " ho travels in a motor-car which, besides being accompanied by aides-de-camp and bodyguards, is also watched by special secret police." We are glad to learn that every precaution is taken to prevent his escape. \ * * " The King," says the " Manchester Courier," has returned all his German orders." So much for the taunt that Britain's object in taking part in tiie tvar was to pick up German orders. ». # * It is said "that Major von Mauteuffel, who superintended the destruction of Louvain, lias been recalled. We presume he will havo to explain why he left the Town Hall standing. We still have to go to Germany for news about our own country. " The latest reliable report is to the effect that there is now serious friction between King George and Lord Kitchener, the former having become alarmed at the raising of " Kitchener's Army. - ' The War Minister, the Kins fears, is aiming at the throne, and it is now being recalled that Lord Kitchener, when a. young man, was once told by a soothsayer, " K 'stands for King." ■ * ♦ * There is a proposal on foot to form a corps of Solicitors. 13v a pretty legal touch it is suggested that they* might train between six and eieht.