THAT WORD 'COMMUNIQUE'

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1915, Page 3

THAT WORD 'COMMUNIQUE'

How many different avenues There are of tidings from the front; By-"which the deeds' we may peruse Of those who bear the battle's brunt. ; First Aunt Jemima, makes her bow, And thus her little piece v she speaks—"l couldn't sleep a wink, I vow, Without those daily communeeks." The pessimist, who reads the news: Through spectacles of Prussian blue, Declares that we are bound to lose—- " Just read that last communikew." A soldier scents afar the fray, His hearj; beneath his khaki tunic Beats high with hope that he some day May figure in a war communik. The weather-beaten, battle-scarred Old veteran delights to see The terse reports' of battles hard Compressed in a eommunikwee. When rumour to us percolates Of British naval exploits cheeky, The crowd,, with bated breadth, awaits . •: . . The true official communeeky. Which of these paths to error leads? Will no one point to us the way? Is't safe to follow him who reads Hfs Petrograd communikay? —"Oriel" in the "Argus."-