*** When the Folkestone raid syren goes off, a man told the Dover Council, it blows your hat off.

The last raid was the smoke-house where stuffed sausage was hanging by the hundred and hams by the dozens.

It was when Price made his last raid to Missouri.

A raid is being planned into British territory.

This raid is no affair of yours.

Everybody seemed to want somebody else to father the proposal for a raid, although every man pretended to be anxious to take part in one.

If you raid Palestine, the local Arabs will all rise to your assistance.

The general feeling seemed to be in favour of a raid if only some one would start it.

A raid aimed at the Zionistsat this momentmight be goodperhaps.

But it was all-important to know who was in favour of the raid, and exactly why.

Therefore, when the illustrious Sheikh Abdul Ali of Damascus urged a raid on the one hand, and boasted of provision for a school in El-Kerak on the other, it would be well to examine this foreign effendi, whom Abdul Ali claimed to have introduced.

The whole question of raid or no raid hangs on their confidence in him.

The whole question of raid or no raid hangs on their confidence in him.

Abdul Ali kept conversation going on the subject of the raid.

You were trying to bring off a raid on Judaea.

Some Arab Sheikh probably captured his great-grandmother on a slave-raid.

And he growls when the murderous shrapnel flies screaming above the lines; His little black nose is a-quiver with glee whenever a raid is on, And they say with pride, "C'est la guerre elle-même, notre Poilu de Carcassonne!"

Mr. M. MORAND, the aggressive Scots member of the election committee, inspired to great heights of insobriety by the return of his London-Scottish nephew from the Front, sounded a welcome human note, as did Mr. SAM LIVESEY, the Labour Member of the committee, shaken out of his detachment into an extreme explicitness of language by a Zeppelin raid experience.

[Illustration: "EXCUSE ME, BUT IS THERE AN AIR-RAID ON?" "YES, I THINK SO.

"Why on this most favourable of nights is there no raid?"

"SAY, GUV'NOR, YER MIGHT RESERVE A COUPLE OF FIRST-CLASS DUNGEONS FOR ME AN' MY FRIENDS ON THE NEXT RAID NIGHT.

"THANK GOODNESS WE SHAN'T 'AVE NO AIR-RAID TO-NIGHT, MRS. 'ARRIS.

"Ruler wanted, experienced, male or female (male preferred); wages according to ability; removal assistance; away from raid area; permanency to suitable applicant."Eastern Daily Press.

I went to Boston, Texas with the colonel and his men and when he went on the big raid into Missouri he left me in Sevier County, Arkansas with his horses 'Little Baldy' and 'Orphan Boy'.

We shall, during that week, in order to prove the genuineness of our intentions, make a raid upon a certain city and, we hope, destroy it.