of many a Chinese town in Interwoven, into the background terior is the military bugler who rises with the lark and begins prac-{ising from some elevated point with the idea, apparently, of impressing the.poptlace. Wherever there is a garrison and has been on the increase since this thing invariably ap-Nationalist. occupation. There tre all sorts of sounds and noises Which herald the dawn of a mew Gay and. the beginning of another period of toll for the honest citizens Who depend entirely upon the light of the fun to illumine their labours ut there is nothing so annoying, and yet so regular a feature, as the mililary Bugler whose efforts could easibe spared. Something of the sort 15 now happening in the Centcal fisteict_ inthe vicinity of the Soochow. Creek. but instead of blowing his "bugle from the top of some neighbouring. hill! and "the mili ary barracks crowning the range beyond the city wall he does from the top of one of the office buildings whose roofs
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