And all this anxiety could be relieved, this loss avoided by sending one little gunboat here.
Are we not worth it? Is not our trade worth this slight attention 40 per cent of the tonnage is British, 45 per cent Japunese, nearly half the impens are of American origin, and yet neither Great Britain, Japan, nor apparently the United' States, will so much as wriggle a propeller in out direction.
We hold meetings, we dresses, ign our Consuls write and wire assistance, and we might as well have done nothing.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.