A comparison of gun calibre and [cun-power showed 16 16-inch guns fon the turrets of the more. powe in 1019, none of i Berthis" existed. In other respects, the gun-calibre
with: minor differences in then about the same og it was in 1019) ber of guns, 'The entire nation, naturally, was filled with proud emotion on beholding the smart and imposing armada, {for supporting. whic' millions have suffered break-back taxation, The newspapers, in editorials" meant obviously for foreign consumption, laboriously assorted that the assemlage of the Japanese fleet was not way of & demonstration, and that the naval manceuvres which preceded the grand review were not meant to strike into anyone the fear of possible aggression from Japan. Such explanations hardly were necessary; in fact, they savoured pedantry. Even the ordinary layman knows that the Japanese fect, as it is to-day, is neither a menace to the United States or to Great Britain. Japan's fleet un-. doubtedly is powerful enough to defend its own shores, but no more, As such, a foreigner can gladly share inthe emotion of the Japanese people, osculation. The two were riding in an electric train and evidently were much enamoured of each other.
They were, further, what is known here as a mo-be (modern hoy) and a mo-ga (modern girl) who are severely frowned upon by the police because of their alleged iconoclastic tendencies in laughing to scorn all the old tenets and beliefs relating, to morality.
It did not take the conductor long to see that they were, in more senses than one; wrapt up in one another and, worse, he saw them Kissing each other. At the next station he placed them under arrest! train conductors have that power' in Japan) and handed them over to the station-master, who sent for the police. The police read the two severe locthre on the vice of kissing, declaring that it was scandalous; and indecorous. They _protested that there was nothing wrong in Kissing and quoted verses from Western literature to prove the innate beauty of lips meeting lips. "Not in Japan, however," snapped, the Inspector.' "Here it is am offence and a gross violation of good conduct." With which retort, he ordered them to be confined in solitary cells for five days,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.