reads the heading to a press agency despatch.
Judging from some of the specimens we see walking about nowadays, all we can infer is that evolution progresses very slowly indeed, We Are Troubled Apour the local situation. The Idzumo did not dress ship for the Double Tenth, nor for some of the foreign anniversaries which. have been recognized. Nor did she, on Wednesday display her bunting on the anniversary of the late Emperor Meiji of Japan. Is she, after all, really on active service, and if she is, is it really war after all?
The Foreign Observer "Varovr never approached by soldiers of western nations is credited both Chinese and Japanese troops by a foreign observer (in a local evening contemporary)...... No European soldiers could have stood up under that withering attack, yet the Chinese refused to give an inch of round. assess sesses"
With all due deference to the very brave men fighting on both sides, around Shanghai, isn't the foreign observer talking through his hat?
Coo!
From this month's "Oriental Affairs:
The month has seen the publication of a number of illustrated War publications include: another special issue of the "China Journal There has not been much occasion for humour during these tragic weeks, but Messrs. "Sapajou", inimitable cartoonist of the "North-China Daily News," and Mr, R. T, Peyton-Griffin, the "In Parenthesis" of the same journal, have produced a brochure entitled "Shanghai's Schemozzle" which has proved intensely popular. Both the artist and the writer have a happy knack of hitting off serious situations in a lighter vein, Sapajou's cartoons have earned worldwide fame. And Mr. Peyton-Griffin's daily column is read by thousands of admirers. Their joint effort has met with a warm welcome, and is Likely to be cherished for many years as a memento of Shanghai's weeks of torment, Both "Sap," and "Ip" have blushed so furiously that their horn-rimmed spectacles have melted. We think "Oriental Affairs" is a very good magazine, too, Correspondence In Parenthesis "Norra-Cutva Daty News"
Dear LP.
About your proverbs competition.
Don't you think for ridiculousness "A stitch in time saves nine," takes the overdone biscuit?
Saves nine what? That's what I want to know.
And if it merely saves nine stitches, what's the use? If you did save them and took them—round to a banker he'd simply give you the merry wel-wah!
How about that hole?
Shanghai Nov. 3.
You win Gwendoline. Come round and get the hole. Though what you are going to take it away in we don't know.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.