Foreign News: Wessex and Mercia

COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations)

In desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia.

But there was a casualty. Prince Henry, third son of the royal house, galloping at the head of his company of Mercian Hussars...

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