WASHINGTON, May 25.--President Wilson Monday asked authority from
Congress for the United States to accept a mandate over Armenia.--
_Canadian Paper._

But there is no reason to believe that the headline is inaccurate.

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HOLIDAY ANTICIPATIONS.

[Now that holiday-planning is in season we have pleasure in announcing
a few proposed schemes for the recreation of some of the mighty brains
that shape our destinies and guide our groping intelligences. But it
must be clearly understood that in these inconstant times we cannot
vouch for their authenticity or guarantee fulfilment.]

MR. ASQUITH'S recent success in spotting the winner of the Derby is
believed to have inspired Mr. LLOYD GEORGE with an idea of combining his
present policy of always going one, if not two or three, better than the
Old Man with a public demonstration of the extent to which the crude
Puritanism of his youth has been mellowed by sympathies more in keeping
with his later political alliances. He is credited with the intention of
putting to appropriate use his peculiar gifts of non-committal prophecy and
persuasive casuistry, and at the same time making sure of a profitable
holiday in the open air by "doing" the Sussex Fortnight, beginning with the
Goodwood meeting, in the capacity of Downy Dave, a race-course tipster.

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There is reason to believe that, if the Recess should afford Sir WILLIAM