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THE VITAL ISSUE 7
WHAT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IS TALKING ABOUT.
1.
Mr. Joynson-Hicks asked the "Under-Secretary of State for War whether he could state the number
Sf recruits obtained in the United Kingdom since the outbreak of war up to the most convenient recent
ate.
Mr. Tennant (Under-Secretary for VVar) : I regret that I can add nothing to previous answers which
have been given on this subject.
Mr. Joynson-Hicks asked whether the whole information was not in possession of the Government.
Mr. Tennant replied that he was not concerned to deny that.
Mr. Joynson-Hicks: Then why is the information not given?
No. Answer.
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II.
LORD READING’S GERMAN CHAUFFEUR AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. Hunt asked the Home Secretary why the German chauffeurs of the Lord Chief Justice and the
Secretary of State for the Colonies were given naturalization certificates just after the war
broke out, and why the chauffeur of the Lord Chief Justice had since been allowed to leave the
COlllllI‘y.
Mr. McKen.na -(the Home Secretary) replied that since the outbreak of the war not more than 80
naturalization certificates had been granted, and that the two chauffeurs, apparently, have been
regarded worthy of it.
The Earl of Ronaldshay: .Is the Right Hon. gentleman aware that since the outbreak of war the
first person mentioned in the question has openly spoken of his sympathy with Germany and
of his hostility to the cause of this country?
Mr. McKenna: I don’t know to which particular person the noble lord refers.
The Earl of Ronaldshay: The chauffeur of the Lord Chief Justice.
Mr. McKenna: No, sir; I am not aware of any circumstances of the sort.
Mr. Hunt: VVill the Right Hon. gentleman say why the chauffeur of the Lord Chief justice has
since been allowed to leave this country?
Mr. McKenna: He has left temporarily, but I can answer nothing further than that
Mr. Hunt: ‘Why was he allowed to leave?
Mr. McKenna: Because he was entitled to.
Several Hon. Members: Where has he gone?
Mr. McKenna: To Switzerland.
And so on.‘
What a democracy! When the Germans are smaslied, constitutional rights will expand, and then the
noble lord and his friend, the Right Hon. gentleman, might even discuss the sympathies of the King’s
valet or-you never can tell-object to the underwear, made in Germany, of Lord Kitchener’s lady friend.
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TELL ME OF SOME ATROCITIES AND YOU SHALL HAVE MY HEART.
“Two of the richest newspaper proprietors in London have spent hundreds of pounds trying
to llIl(l a mutilated Belgian child. They found one, and then some unfeeling doctor came and
proved that the child had been born 50.”
It has been known all along that there was a crying demand for mutilated Belgian children on the
London morality market. So far there was no supply whatever. But economists are expecting the
rising of a new incliistry. An urgent demand has never had long to wait.
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ANOTHER MARCHING SONG OF LORD KITCHENER’S RECRUITS.
llello, hello, who’s your lady friend?
lVlm’s the little lady by your side?
l’ve seen you with a girl or two,
Oh, Oh, Oh, I AM surprised at you.
llello, hello, stop your little games.
Don’t you think your ways you ought to mend?
This isn’t the girl I saw you with at Brighton.
Who, who, WHO'S your lady friend?