PUNCH,

OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 156.



February 19, 1919.




CHARIVARIA.

The report that demobilisation will be completed by March 31st is now
officially denied. There would appear to be something in the rumour
that the Demobilisation Staff have expressed the hope of dying in
harness.

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It is stated that Woolwich Arsenal is preparing to manufacture
ice-cream freezers. People are wondering if it was the weather that
gave them this happy thought.

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The German ex-Crown Prince is so determined that the Allies shall not
place him on trial that he now threatens to commit suicide or die in