As the war in Africa is supplying welcome news of
successes, so it is supplying welcome touches of humour. Two are pro- vided in The Times telegrams on Wednesday. One, of course, was the novel and agreeable achievement of British raiders into Libya in capturing an Italian general in full uniform in the act of driving his wife to a maternity home, where she expected soon to have a baby ; she will have it in an Egyptian maternity home now. The other was in a message from Aden which told how during a British raid in Abyssinia " the entire bazaar was praying throughout the raid not only that nothing should fall on them, but also that maximum damage should be caused to the Italians." Whoever the deity to whom the peti- tions were addressed, both, it is satisfactory to know, were fully answered.
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