Foreign News: Ticket-of-Leave-Man

Out of Maidstone Jail, Kentshire, there strode last week the irrepressible Horatio Bottomley, founder of that broadly humorous weekly John Bull, which was bought more largely by British soldiers in France than any other magazine.

Five years have passed since genial Mr. Bottomley was led into a cell for converting to his own use £5,000 ($24,300) of the really enormous sums which his fervent oratory had helped to raise for War purposes. To be sure the judge who sentenced Mr. Bottomley stigmatized his "long series...

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