Punch, or the London Charivari
Punch, or the London Charivari
Volume 158, February 11, 1920
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ld by Mr. Diogenes
Dottle in a letter to The Daily Mandate. But the POSTMASTER-GENERAL is
content to treat the question with the airy scepticism and obstructive
complacency that have rendered the London Telephone service a byword of
inefficiency, and refuses even to make a grant in aid of the work of
investigation.
"In these circumstances the proprietors of The Daily Mandate have much pleasure in announcing that they will pay the sum of ten thousand pounds to the first man, woman or child in the British Empire who can produce evidence of having received an intelligible telephonic message from Saturn, and a further sum of one hundred thousand pounds to the first person to send a message to that planet and receive a clear reply. The services of a Board of distinguished experts are being engaged for the purpose of testing and adjudicating all claims.
"_Meanwhile the POSTMASTER-GENERAL must go._"
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[Illustration: _Indignant Egoist._ "BE CAREFUL
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