The Horrors Of War In

Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent

Papeete. Nov. 25.

OUR Tahitian Brotherhood of the Bottle has been appeased by casks, hogsheads and tuns of wine from Australia and California.

Now. tribulation and despair have descended on our cigarette slaves. The major number of these among our womenfolk. This twofold deprivation of lipstick and cigarettes will, likely, turn them into furies and barridans.

We pipe-smokers have been con strained to use our black native tobacco —with consequences to our tempers not altogether happy.

All of this may seem trivial in a world at war. But to a man with a toothache the majestic procession of the constella tions is a matter of minor importance.

And so small things seem to our Papeete people.