10 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 16

BOLO.

[To ran EOM!: or ran "SPEC1,7071."3 Pro,--Ton hare reminded us of the Bolos in Africa and of a Bolo in Mr. Pickwick's Bath. But the " Bole " that has, like the Pasha in Paris, a sinister reputation, is the long Filipino knife, the Eastern counterpart of the Cuban "machete." Mr. Stanley Portal Hyatt wrote a story called The Law of the Bolo, the moral of whirls is that in any dispute the man who strikes the first blow with his henry knife is right. " Boloism" is thus a curiously exact term for modern German ethics.-1 am, Sir, de.,

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