Most British papers have been shut down by the General Strike™. The Times is literally a leaflet today. The Daily Mail tries to print in Paris, but the French printers said hell no. So the government starts its own propaganda rag, The British Gazette. The NYT seems bemused by its column on Zoo Notes (a white elephant is coming from Burma!). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who was after all once a war reporter, is overseeing it and writing much of its content.
The government raises the price of milk to 2s a quart (and no, the NYT doesn’t say what the pre-strike price was, that would be informative, just stop asking).
Oxford University will grant leave of absence to students wanting to blackleg as a lark (newspapers won’t shut up about these young jackanapes).
“Britishers are such good walkers that lack of transportation facilities is not proving such a hardship to them as it would to continental dwellers.”
Cricket matches and horse races are suspended.
The Prince of Wales races back to Britain from France on an aeroplane so he can help out by doing, um, important emergency prince stuff. Did no one tell him that horse meets and cricket matches are suspended?
Nicaragua declares a state of internal war. There’s a Liberal revolutionary movement, whatever that means.
No comments:
Post a Comment