American journalism loses a plcturesque and vigorous personality by the death of Mr. George Bronson Rea. He carried his. years lightly and it may be assumed that he met the enemy which overcome him with the same unflinching courage which marked his youthful adventures. in the Cuban War and his later downright bellicosity in the Sino-Japanese crisis from 1031 onwards, In his writings George Bronson Rea never be-Heved in depriving his arguments of whatever vigour a rich vocabulary and a fluent pen could give them. Like the old-time actor wire, to play Othello, blacked himself alt over, Mr. Rea threw himself thoroughly into the advocacy of whatever cause commended itself to him. When he was convinced: by arguments which seemed to him to be conclusive that hhis former championship of Chinese causes should be replaced by hi even more ardent espousal of Japan's policies, he had no hesitation in pouring ridicule, invective and scorn, on. opinions once held by him. With It all he managed to preserve a good-natured naivety which, often, robbed his apparently Rerce denunciations of much of their sting. He never forgot his Cuban experiences and if hig pen was not greater than the sword it certainly wag used by him as if it had all the qualities of that lethal weapon. His friends in China will deeply regret hhis death and hope that the grim disease which laid him low was sparing, of its agony.
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