Notes

British workmen engaged off Scapa Flow in breaking up a scuttled German warship came across the bodies of five German officers and seamen, who were thought not to have been warned when the German crews sank their ships on June 21, 1919.

Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court. He was very angry, named his two donkeys after his two lawyers, painted their names on the animals' blinders, drove through the streets of Dortmund. The sensitive lawyers sued for defamation of character. The drayman swore that he meant no harm. The Judge asked: "If you had a third donkey, what would you name him?" The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth." Thirty days in jail was the Judge's kick.

In consequence of the settlement of the Upper Silesian question, Germany was ordered, by the League of Nations, last year, to pay to Poland the $1,500,000 which Polish Silesians had paid to the Berlin Government as premiums on compulsory social insurance. Germany did not object, but a reminder from the Polish Government in January that the amount was shortly falling due elicited this reply from Berlin : "Apply to S. Parker Gilbert [Agent General of Reparations] to have the amount deducted from the reparations payments." The matter came to light, last week, when Secretary General of the League, Sir Eric Drummond, informed the Agent General and the German Government that the Council will discuss in its June session Germany's failure to pay its debt to Poland.