One subject almost as much talked of as the war in China was the speed and efficiency of the measures taken by Great Britain to deal with the pirates in the Mediterranean. There is nothing that has attracted more general interest. It certainly shows that in a matter where her historical interests are at state Great Britain can and will act with despatch and vigour. The Mediterranean is no place, as every Englishman agrees, for making gestures.
A new word is to be added to the Japanese diplomatic dictionary of phrase and fable, We are hearing a good deal in Japanese telegrams of actions against Chinese "irregulars." This phrase, as used in Japan, means Chinese troops who do anything so inconvenient and irregular as to bob up again in places where the Japanese spokesmen announced weeks ago that they had been."mopped up" and driven out.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.