in the Taku Road was serious enough in alleonscience, but it was most certainly magnified out ut ull proper propostion to its contemporary incidents by the telegraphic agencies. s usual it originated and developed under the weis of the priestesses of Paphos (Juponienses) whose temples are in the no-man's land between the British and German Settlements, Silenus and Bacchus too were.in it as prime factors, It may be asked why these shrines are tolerated by the military authorities The answer is difficult, and hangs much on the fact that the place in question is a no-man's land, Great as the evils are, it is quite certain that they have obviated fur greater and more heinous ones, to which only remote allusion can be made, All the commanders with much acumen stopped such places within the limits of their own lines or concessions; the chief trouble has been that in the cult of John Barleycorn and Aphrodite, the men have to pass through the British Concessions, and ate on their return hardly in a frame of mind to abate patriotic pride... Whatever the Tommies of la belle France and the Father-Iand may think about it, the responsible men in command have shown much wisdom:
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