Przemysl, however, remains in Galicia.

   Mr.

    Ramsay MacDonald

   and Mr.

    Keir Hardie

   have joined Mr.

    Blatchford

   in a recruiting campaign, with most gratifying results. In the course of one of his speeches Mr.

    Ramsay MacDonald

   announced that the experience he had gained while tiger-shooting in India had enabled him to organise an elephant-gun battery, with which he was shortly about to proceed to the front.

   It is reported that, at the instigation of the Chevalier

    William le Queux

   , the Republic of San Marino has declared war on Germany, and appointed the Chevalier as

    generalissimo

   of its forces, which are estimated at 250 men.

   Great consternation has been caused in Vienna on receipt of the news that, in view of

    Beethoven's

   full name being

    van Beethoven

   , and his origin Dutch, he has been removed from the list of belligerent composers and regarded as a neutral by concert-givers in London and Paris. A counter-movement has in consequence been started with the object of treating

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