Most of the foreign correspondents. have been hero indeed for a shore time only—just waiting at the base for the wat—aay old war—to bes the "Yamato" rag cheering, 10 the boys stage the me old wat the valour of their ignorance every year or two for 20. years and more. IL was, indeed, my old friend Homer Lee who started it and named his bock so aptly.
The "Yumato" went int" the arena some 12 years ago and shot the Anqlo-Japanese alliance so full of holes that it never yot over thy attack and died in Washington in 1921; but it was the "Yamato" done it, Then the "Gentleman's agres ment" came all bent and (wisted from the cyclone of the "Yumate's" hot air and the gents' pact never recovered. Again the "Yamato."
So it is "that just now the Yamato" ix giving the girls a re gular thrill! But only the newcomers among the foreign correspondents and the tourists take it seriously. Some of the old! timers—"the irre: concilables" we call em—wrap them= selves in "Yematos" and are sorty for those who refuse to take warning, oF to feel the chill of coming dis. solution.
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