This may not seem to have much do with Mr. Nachbour's cheerful Christmas bulletin, but it really By virtue of strenuous guesswork and the framing of thoughts unduly' inspired by hopes, we laymen in this community have agreed to conclude that the intervention story had some foundation in a circular inguiry which passed through the capitals of the West, coming probably from Tokyo and asking when ther the Powers did not think it bout time for intervention in China where representative Government had long since ceased to exist and where Red chaos was rapidly taking its place. We choose to believe that some such query went out by telegraph, was circulated to and fro, always containing the Japanese offer of a vanguard of 20,000 men, and that it wag rejected with right-cons, o self righteous, indignation bz the various Powers; but tha somewhere in the course of transit some bright lad let it go over the radio in plain English, or plain French, to Mr. Nachbour's edification and our short-lived delight.
Since then, despite diplomatic clementi, we have had one short, trifling wire into this community asserting that the Powers have decided not to present a united note to China on the present chaotic over this Christmas season,
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