(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1830)
London, Feb. 25.
Chamberlain probably holds the record for the greatest applause for the shortest speech—only four words—ever Taie "This admirably conducted operation," he said began in Statement on the Cossack's rescue of the British prisoners "from the Altmark, and the House of Commons burst into such a iult of prolonged cheering as is rarely heard.
Even the gallery joined in unrebuked, though quite against One very interesting comment is that of the "Berlingske Tidende" of Copenhagen, which produces an exact parallel from 1918. A Spanish ship, the Igoz Mendi, which had been seized by the Germans, filled with British prisoners and was trying to 3 to Germany, when she was wrecked in Danish waters. tried to hide the prisoners, but as the ship flew the uni tions they may expect and the answers they should give.
The activities of the Peace Pledge Union were discussed in Parliament ji -|this week, and Sir John Anderson MA said that it was being very closely watched. One cannot but hope he will do more than merely watch. A La clergyman, who has had a great deal of experience of the tribunals which
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