Nov. 13.
The news of the death of Mr. Lenox Simpson will be received certain definite advantages. They would not necessarily lasting if his administration eventually became permanent. But they would be adequate, if} skilfully used, to gain for him a Yeputation for despatch and efiicieney which it might have Proved difficult to maintain, Such a test never came. The whirligig of time, operating with lightning swiftness in Chini brought its revenge, and Mr. Simpson was dispossessed almost in the same manner as he hi self had assumed office, in spite of a desperate attempt on his own part to placate the new authority in the North, Then came the tragedy. That is not merely the tragedy of the victim whose death is mourned to-day, but the tragedy of China, Whatever may have been the defects in Mr, Simpson himself and hi tions, they. could not possibly' justify such a despicable piece of treachery as that which cost him-his life. Even his bitterest enemy would surely condemn the cowardly ruthlessness of the gunman as a weapon of revenge, It may be objected that Mr. Simpson invited violence by his own violence of temperament, but who in such a matter can throw a stone? The argument Of assassination is one which no country can afford, with safety to its own reputation and, hearts," the Armistice Day hymn, and Lady Keeble, formerly Miss Lillah MeCarthy, paid tributes to the Poet Laureate's work, Mr. John Masefield was made an Honorary Freeman of the City of Hereford, the capital of his native county, last month, and the ceremony was presided over by Mrs. Louise Luard, the first woman Mayor of Hereford, The Chief Steward of the Mr. J. R. Arkwright, the mand in normal times. A_ pessimist writing to "The Times" comments fon this "unfortunately the Chinese do not wear shirts, and two muger than nothing is still That extract from the "North-1a Daily News" of yesterday's dure has been referred to this office by more than one correspondent (salutations to Anti-Lynch" and Gyn") as startlingly hectic, Evidently these obliging folk have imagined that thanks to the ever-active resourcefulness of the British Navy, a new method of suppressing poetical genius had been found. "F.L.P." is said to be exceedingly alarmed at the possibility of this misappr hension gaining ground $0, to reassure him, the explanation is at once given. It has been discovered that, lurking in some obscure nook of the building in which this paper is produced, there is an author of many.
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