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The following trumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
That Zeppelins dislike chain-shot.
That not every grate works gradely.
That 14s. in the is worth saving.
That burning breeze is not all hot air.
Of the Guild for doing Zeppelins down. That a film of soap tones any headlight.
That country bill-posting by motorvan pays.
The Zeppelin reconnaissance goes merrily on.
That the Lacre will raise lucre on Saturday next.
Of a big suppression of A.S.C., MT., postcards.
That there are 784,000 men under arms in Holland.
That not a few controlled works are flying the Union Jack.
That steel, not rubber, may cost you money on ends.
That A.S.C., M.T., driver tests are being made still stiffer.
That coke with only 7i per cent. of ash takes some finding.
That Lieut.-Col. H. C. Wilder has been promoted to Gibraltar.
That it takes winning Wyles to make way at ploughing trials.
That Brighton and other seaside resorts continue to fire ehars:a-bancs.
That good-bye will have to be said to a certain amount of overhang.
That Lt.-Coh IL N. Foster, A.D.T., has recently let fall his first big D.
That choice may be between integration of effort and disintegration of business.
That owners of controlled works can at least spend money freely without feeling it.
That the R.A.C. is considerately lowering its an--n nal subscriptions very materially.
That an expert committee of divers is to be called in to improve London's want-of-light regulations. That weight on the front axle is relatively more popular with road surveyors than weight on the back.
That whet it comes to a question of unsprung weight, the ratio in favour of solid rubber to steel is in practice about 1 to 5.
That two places where satisfactory net profits have been made during the last nine months are the North Sea and the English Channel.
That Harrod's have just, at request, supplied one of their leading transport officials, to help as a major, to assist the carrying in Flanders.
That, following the issue of the new Heavy Motor Car Order, early next year, consideration of taxation scales will be the next Governmental procedure.
That the chief of the German Air Staff will no doubt explain that the captain of the Zep_pelin mis took the Theatre for one of the theatres of war, That the Peerless Co., the Peerless President, the Peerless Treasurer, and the Peerless Staff, came together to share the pleasure of giving that $2000 to the C.C. Fund.
That the " CM." was first by a long way (isSue of the 27th May) when it wrote : That a corps of gasfighting chemists is being formed, and that they will use both gas-tricks and gas-trPcks."
That the limit of excitement when a Zeppelin comes is shown in the streets by an apparent eagerness of pedestrians to get under the shop awnings, but that the women sometimes put up their umbrellas.