Stormy Petrels.

He certainly is a venturesome man who, in modern scientific development, utters the word “can't.” Achievement, however, has to over-come commercial as well as technical difficulties, and it is probable that the inner commercial history of wireless would be quite as interesting as its scientific record. Nor would it be by any means free of political contacts, as when Mr. Cecil Chesterton lampooned Mr. Lloyd George with charges that, years later, were refuted in detail by Lord Birkenhead. The veteran of many similar encounters, Mr. Lloyd George, met another such in Mr. Hughes, and the part the two Welshmen played in war and post-war councils has already been embalmed in war literature. Meanwhile, both remain vital sparks—or (as some would have it) stormy petrels. And that title Mr. Hughes would not disclaim. Press listeners at the wireless telephone opening heard him say to Mr. Lloyd George: “Politically, of course, you have your troubles… Yes, yes, full of troubles. I'm afraid wherever we are, trouble is very near us. If there's not trouble, we make some.” And Mr. Hughes in Australia gave a characteristic chuckle, which forthwith registered in London.