Monday was the last of the Great Heat. Work it out for yourself but it was on that day that the Japanese war vessels mizzled off down to Woosung. But they came back.
The Quotation of Quotations The day is cold and dark and dreary It rains, the wind seems never weary Be still, sad heart and cease repining Behind each cloud is a silver lining That may be true in other places, In, other climes, midst other races; But in Shanghai it is very plain The silver lining's an aeroplane, War Reporting A '"——" observer who spent the afternoon in the Woosung area, confirmed the landing of troops from transports but saw no other troop vessel in the area.
'A' spokesman of the Nanking-Shanghai Garrison Headquarters, at a press conference yesterday afternoon Genied the reports that Japanese succeeded in landing troops in the vicinity of Woosung.
In PARENTHESIS assures his readers that there is every chance of one or other of these two consecutive paragraphs in a local contemporary being correct.
Correspondence In PareNntHesIs "North-China Daily Daily News" Dear LP, The First Class of the Order of St.
Ananias goes to the compradore who Says that the price of Whisky is up 10 per cent. because of the huge Stocks consumed by fire at Yangtsze poo.
J.C. de B.
Somewhere-in-Frenchtown Aug. 22
The news leaves us cold! What we are waiting for is for an escort to out to bring in compradore stores upon which he is profiteering. 1. P. doesn't Say this will happen, but it dogs, seem a mad sort of doesn't it?
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