Briskiy ablaze, the m.v. Tongking, of the East Asiatic Company's fleet, is seen above after disaster overtook her near Penang early this month. The vessel, a familiar sight in the Whangpoo in former days, was carrying a cargo of rice when she burst into flames. and she had to be abandoned by all hands and left to burn herself out. were brought ashore.
The household belongings of several Shanghai Danish residents, now retired and en route home in other vessels, were in the Tongking when she burned and are believed to be a total loss. a succession of defeats.
"There is no dissolvent of war enthusiasm like defeat," the paper said.
The "Evening Star" believed that Japan's military reversal signified that a Japanese defeat in China was no longer. inconceivable.
It cited the Tokyo cabinet crisis as evidence that the reversal already was "shaking the Empir Japan's prestige and authority in Asia, based on her supposed irresistible force, has been gravely impaired. the "Evening Star" said.—United Press.
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