6 OCTOBER 1917, Page 11

PRUSSIAN WAYS.

ITo THE EDITOR OF sex " Sereravols."1 "The Essence of Parliament" in the number of Punch for April 27th, 1861, is the following :— " Thursday. On the question of the maltreatment of a British officer by the Prussian authorities. Lord Shaftesbury pronounced the mild decision that nothing can be more melancholy, nor more inhospitable, than the system of Prussian administration, from the highest to the lowest functionary.'" History repeats itself in a much aggravated form.-1 am, Sir, Ac.,

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