Walter Emanuel

Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3824… (19th and 20th century)

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Walter Emanuel Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3824… (19th and 20th century)

A Sikh non-commissioned officer has, according to The Central News, delivered himself of the following saying:—"Power is to kings, but time belongs to the gods. The Indians know how to wait." This will no doubt call forth an indignant rejoinder from the Teutonic Waiters' Association.
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Walter Emanuel Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3824… (19th and 20th century)

One can almost hear the Kaiser smacking his lips.

At last the authorities have acted, and the premises of a German firm with concrete foundations have been raided. This bears out the promise of certain high officials who declared that they would take action when a concrete example was brought to their notice.

The official "Eye-Witness" in a recent despatch tells us how a British subaltern saw, from a wood, an unsuspecting German soldier patrolling the road. Not caring to shoot his man in cold blood
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