Cursese is easy to learn if you have a system. So is English: all you have to do is to classify your events under a few standard phrases. Thus:
Fierce fighting.—Any noise is made. attack where a lot of Driven off—Any retreat.
Details are not recelved—Any situation whereon you have no dope.
The building was gutted.—Any fire even if the structure had none of those things and wasn't burned out anyway.
Withering fire—Any machine gun performance.
Terrific hail.—Any flight of bullets.
Being.
Tension—Anything that starts rumourmongers According to information reaching here—Any rumour, Tripe!
THe Hongkong "Daily Press," which every day seems to work itself into a frantically high temperature, recently got the following off its chest:—
With all their boasting the Japanese have reduced their lavishly publicized first-class nation to the level of a third-rater. All the leather-lunged pronouncements by Konoye, Hirota and Party have proved shallow as a drained dam. The outpourings by Hirota particularly can conveniently be classified in that branch of deceitfulness known as clumsy lying, and that is indeed remarkable in the case of such an adept so carefully trained in a country where lying is one of the fine arts—if not actually regarded as one of the finest!
As a valuable contribution to the sober discussion of China's present troubles, this might do very well boiled with onions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.