Foreign News: Byng Sits Up

A new scandal was unearthed at Scotland Yard last week, and London’s police commissioner, General Lord Byng of Vimy, Viscount of Thorpe-le-Soken, sat up all night to investigate it. Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude. Officers of the special political branch of Scotland Yard were accused of fraternizing with foreign agents and communists.

Skeptical observers pointed out the well-established Conservative custom of having a Bolshevik scandal shortly before a general election,