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Somebody said immigrants were badly treated on reaching Australia. Said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary, to Lord Apsley: "Either you or I will have to go and see things for ourselves." As a day laborer at $5 a week went in strict incognito Lord Apsley, heir apparent to old Lord Bathurst, whose wife was until recently owner of The Morning Post. Last week he came back, said that immigrants were not badly treated.

Oxford "bags" -- trousers wide enough to hide effectively knocked knees, bowed legs and other nether malformations, and of colors gorgeous enough to shame a rainbow--were banned by the Provost of Eton, who stipulated that 20 inches round the ankle must be the maximum width.

No. 16 King Street, London, is the headquarters of Communists in Britain. When some "reds" arrived there one morning last week, they found it streaked with red, white and blue paint. Not being in love with the colors of the Union Jack, the Communists threatened, if they caught the "joker," to "paint him red all over."

A window to Joan of Arc in the Ethical Church of London contains a three-quarter length portrait of George B. Shaw and the late Anatole France. Questioned as to why he was in the picture, the author of the play Saint Joan replied with characteristic pretentious affectation: "You had better go and ask Anatole France."

At Wellington, capital of New Zealand, a controversy raged over the fluid content of the welcome to the visiting U. S. fleet. The Drys said it should be dry; the Wets were all for dispensing "the customary hospitality." The vexatious problem was disposed of by leaving it to the decision of the Admiral commanding the fleet.