[Illustration: Servant (on hearing air-raid warning).

I was dining the other day with a young and brilliant officer, who has seen two months' active service in the A.S.C. and won golden opinions at the Base, and he assured me that there is no "Better 'Ole" than the Oxford during an air-raid.

This must be some air-raid warning by the rural police.

"Because whenever I bang," said the door, "they think I'm an air-raid.

[Illustration: Butler (the family having come down to the kitchen during an air-raid).

* AIR-RAID FASHIONS AT MANCHESTER.

It was pitch dark in the street outside, all the lights having been out on account of an air-raid.

I heard him complaining bitterly of having been hauled out of bed during the last air-raid on London.

" "I'm sorry, sir, but the doctor was blown up in yesterday's air-raid and he won't be down for a week.

I have dwelt upon these details, revolting as they are, because I wish to drive home the fact that the only victims of this air-raid on Antwerp were innocent non-combatants.

*** There is no truth in the rumour that during a recent air-raid a man was caught on the roof of a certain Government building in Whitehall signalling to the Germans where not to drop their bombs.

*** It should be added that the practice of giving air-raid warnings by notice published in the following morning's papers has been abandoned only after the most exhaustive tests.

[Illustration: THE AIR-RAID SEASON.

A member of the Chancery Bar consults us on the following point: "I was awakened," he says, "by my dog during a recent air-raid.

[Illustration: SCENE.Basement during an air-raid.

[Illustration: STOUT LADY (discussing the best thing to do in an air-raid): "Well, I always runs about meself.

From the police-notice re air-raid warnings: "When the car has two occupants one might concentrate on whistling and calling out 'Take Cover.'

I SUPPOSE YOU THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO POP DOWN THE EUPHONIUM IF THERE'S AN AIR-RAID.

" Not until Mr. BONAR LAW announced that the PRIME MINISTER would move the adjournment of the House and make in Secret Session a statement regarding the air-raid was the House really roused.

The echoes of the air-raid had almost died away by this afternoon.

ALL THROUGH THE AIR-RAID.

Digging for Mrs. Miller; some experiences of an air-raid warden.

Small Girl (on morning after air-raid).

" *** The cow which walked down sixteen stairs into a cellar at Willesden is said to have been the victim of a false air-raid warning.

*** We feel that the public need not have been so peevish because the experimental siren air-raid warning was not heard by everybody in London.