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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
That petrol is very uppish just now.
Of tractor men both on and off the track.
"Pay the money, and get ready to call the tune *later on."
That both the Leyland and Thornyeroft grapes were really plums.
Of a curious invention for catching submarines with tame sea-lions.
That not every KT. Commission implies expert engineering training.
That there's room for more cash in the Comforts till—till the war is over.
That dependable men are the indispensable men, both for Army and Commerce.
That London continues to be the best city in the world in which to find refugees.
That the "Emden," tired out at Cocos Island, was found to be tired inside with a Dunlop cover.
That no individual British maker has been asked to give more than 1170 to the Fund ab initio.
Of snowbound travellers unexpectedly staying at Rugby and other places for the night last week.
That it's a poor example of up-to-date methods to reckon the petrol rebate at VW. per gallon in an article on working costs. That the E.10,000 is not in hand although received.
That steam feels it, but still feels its feet as well.
No valid reason why steam should be left out any longer.
Of a Leyland lorry which carried its aeroplane load, urgently wanted, in the teeth of the great blizzard last week.
That the higher postage rates have mercifully checked a lot of inter-local-authority resolution mongering.
That the C.M.T.T.A. is enrolling many new members daily, and that the annual subscription may have to go up for new ones soon.
That it is as well the Rugby-Coventry and RugbySoutham motorbus routes had not been instituted before the recent snowfall.
Of a new suffrage poster—" If a woman can ca,st a shell she can cast a vote," and one wonders if it would not be better to forge both.
That we ought to have known better than to describe a lot. of Dutch soldiers on a Packard as Austrians and Huns—our mistake !
Of increasing appeals to the W.D. to lend motor lorries to assist to relieve commercial transport congestion, and of a measure of willingness other-than near the East Coast.
That income-tax and excess-profits yields have been enormously held in abeyance over the end of the closed Financial Year before beingsbanked on Exchequer amount, and that this unseen reserve as 9 start for 1916-1917 runs into seine £35,000,000.