33 ets, 55 cts., 85 cts. All Shows, commanded, and referred to the admirable work done by the British troops in Shanghai during the crisis, and the record achieved by the Sea-1500 forth Highlanders in disembarking in Hongkong a little over 36 hours aftes orders to move had reached the Bat talion in i He understood that General Telfer-Smollett was a descendant of the sister of the well known novelist, Dr.
Tobias Smollett, who had married a Mr. Telfer, but had resumed het maiden name on succeeding to the family estates, Dr. Smollett was best Temembered as the author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pic kie" and "Humphry Clinker."
1t was probably not generally 3099 known that in 1769 he had published a political satire upon the conduct of lic affairs in England, under the title of "The Adventures of an Ato: 100 and that it took the form of a descrip-ion of an imaginary war between China and Japan. He gave a few quotations which might well have referred to the present Sino-Japanese hostilities, one of the coincidences being the attack upon an important "Settlement" in China, and the "Let's go to-night to
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