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New Zealand Tablet, 1 April 1915, Page 34

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ceiting Even There is a good story in currency in English papers just now which, if it be not true, certainly ought to be. It is of a French Minister visiting a French military hospital, in which two Parisians occupied two neighboring cots. The Minister asked Parisian No. 1 how he was. ‘ W are making slight progress ,’ was the cheerful reply. The Minister, with a smile, turned to the second wounded man, whose recovery was slow. ‘ And how are you?’ he asked. ‘ Situation unchanged ,’ was the soldier’s reply in a feeble voice. ' ‘ Nothing new to report.’ This time the Minister laughed outright, and cheerfully admitted that the joke was against him. Pointed Pars American papers continue to have their little jokes on the subject of the war, and some of their pen pricks are sufficiently to the point. Here are some of the latest Spades are trumps in the European war game. — Wall Street Journal. Turkey is now in a position to issue the bluest of blue books. — Houston Chronicle. It seems as though those hundred years of peace had been celebrated just in time.— Boston Transcript. fessor. If it is, Europe is fast eradicating it.— Kansas City Journal. The new election laws in China fix the Presidential term at ten years, or indefinitely. There’s a one-term plank that even Woodrow Wilson could subscribe to. — B s ton Transcript. The pessimistically inclined who have been crying that Christianity is a failure might wait until it has been tried.— Washington Post. The trouble with Colonel Bryan’s overtures of peace is that the other nations do not seem to be able to catch the tune. -St. Louis Globe Democrat. There’s some consolation in the reflection that after the war some of those medieval European cities can use the trenches for subways and sewer systems. — Boston Transcript.