PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

VOL. 152.



March 28th, 1917.




[Illustration: _Torpedoed mine-sweeper_ (_to his pal_). "AS I WAS A-SAYIN',
BOB, WHEN WE WAS INTERRUPTED, IT'S MY BELIEF AS 'OW THE SUBMARINE BLOKES
AIN'T ON 'ARF AS RISKY A JOB AS THE BOYS IN THE AIRY-O-PLANES."]

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CHARIVARIA.

Charged at Kingston with being an absentee from military service, a man of
retiring habits stated that he did not know the country was at war. When
told that we were fighting the Germans he was greatly interested.

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The Hamburg hotel-keepers have decided to abolish the practice of charging
more for food in cases where wine or beer are not consumed. The reason
given--that there was no wine or beer to be consumed--is so trivial that a
deeper motive may well be suspected.