From Mr, Silver's "Extracts from a Shanghai War Diary" in the "Tsingtao Times'
Anyhow, it alt did not look to us as a "schemozzle"—the name given to the war in Shanghai later by the brilliant combination of Sapajou and Peyton-Griffin....when people got tired of being scared to death and felt the need in the cure by humour.
Tt looked like a real war, and a real and terrible War it was and is up to now...
By dear chap, we have it on the best of authority that it isn't war. Of course it looks like it, but then "Gild a farthing, if you Yet it is a farthing still The War Situation "Tus was heavy fighting in both southern and northern sectors of the Shanghai front yesterday, but progress made by the Japanese forces was quite in line with expectations which os have been expressed here during, the last few days. An important feature of events, however, was that the Japanese seemed to have definitely established themselves in a position to crush either flank of the main body of troops holding Soochow."
Of course, we know that war is war, but, if this process of crushing flanks is resorted, to we shall have the opinion, which we have held for a long time, confirmed, that something is going on round here.
Diplomatic Language Min, Neville Chamberlain in the House of Commons;—
"I am very happy to be able to inform the House that the informal, exploratory discussions With a view to reaching an agreed basis for the negotiation of a trade agreement between Britain and the United States have now reached a point at which the Governments of both countries feel able {o announce that negotiations for such an agreement are contemplated."
Put into simpler language:—"The whole question of the trade relations between Great Britain and the United States having been exploratorially discussed, we feel it is about time we got a move on.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.