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All for a Scrap of Paper, by Joseph Hocking
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Title: All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War
Author: Joseph Hocking
Release Date: April 23, 2008 [eBook #25152]
Language: English
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ALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER
A Romance of the Present War
by
JOSEPH HOCKING
Author of "Dearer Than Life," "The Curtain of Fire," "The Path of Glory," Etc.
Fifteenth Edition
Hodder and Stoughton London ---- New York ---- Toronto MCMXVIII
JOSEPH HOCKING'S GREAT WAR STORIES
THE PATH OF GLORY THE CURTAIN OF FIRE DEARER THAN LIFE TOMMY TOMMY AND THE MAID OF ATHENS
OTHER STORIES BY JOSEPH HOCKING
Facing Fearful Odds O'er Moor and Fen The Wilderness Rosaleen O'Hara The Soul of Dominic Wildthorne Follow the Gleam David Baring The Trampled Cross
"I then said that I should like to go and see the Chancellor. . . I found the Chancellor very agitated. His Excellency began a harangue which lasted about twenty minutes. He said that the step taken by His Majesty's Government was terrible to a degree; just for a word, 'neutrality'--a word which in war time had also often been disregarded--just for a scra