"The manager and the chef will be happy to make you pancakes," she announced delightedly. "We got some today and are able to make pancakes for the first time in four years." Then and the de chef was in no mood to do it, because you are English."

The American correspondents were served four pancake masterpieces each sprinkled with sugar. They were so good that we had no claims later when we were told that the roast beef of Ostend was really "Woven Hotel, Ostend's most."

The manager showed us through two floors, pointing out where wall ornaments, chandeliers, and everything of copper had been torn off. All wool had been plucked from the mattresses. Nine thousand bottles of wine had been carted away. But the hotel had receipts for everything stolen!

Nor was this all. The hotel was set apart for German officers, and it had been a great trial to endure the tyrannical mood of most of them. Hotel Manager Tells of Sufferings at the Hands of the Germans.

BLACKSMITH IN DANGER ACTING AS SHOE CLERK

Bast Weymouth, Mass.—When J. H. Moran, the village blacksmith, retired after 41 years of shoeing horses to work in a retail shoe store, the manager made the following comment: "He'll get in wrong if, bending over, he grubs some of the new trade in the old way and exclaims 'Lift up, Bessie!'  GLAD COLONIES ARE FREED
Native Chiefs in Former German Possessions Hope They Will Remain Under British Rule. 