(Editor "North-China Daily News," 1911-1930)
London, Oct. 12.
Chinese Ambassador's reception in the afternoon of the "Double Ten" was something more than a celebration of the Republican anniversary; many people came specially to congratulate Dr. Quo Tai-chi on the reopening of the Burma Road. Lady Halifax came to represent her husband, who has little time for tricks"—there is, perhaps no harm now in saying that Lord Halifax was always opposed to the closing of the road—and Mr. R. A. Butler, who is making a name for himself as Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Alexander, the First Lord, and Mrs. Alexander were there, and Mr. Sterndale Bennett, who has taken Mr. R. G. Howe's plate at the head of the Far Eastern department of the Foreign Office. There were several well-known department of the Foreign Office. There were several well-known people of London society. he o EL. organize same e China Campaign Committee, Dr. Quo made pleasant, wish to leave. But this is wholly spontaneous.
The Yokohama Specie and the Mitsui Banks remain and some others. In fact, Japanese living in London soon get to like life here very much and have no desire to depart. I might go further and say that certainly the great majority of them learnt of the signing of the alliance with Gemmany and Italy wita regret and dismay.
Bombs continue to fall on the just and the unjust. The latest German device to get the better of us is to attach a light bomb to one of their high-speed fighters and send it out to make a dash-ayer London and do what harm it "may and dash out again. This sort of attack is of course more difficult to cope with, but at the same time it much reduces the Huns' offensive power besides being a further admission of the complete failure of their big bombers.
The camps have had one or two desultory attacks, which suggested no more than that the Huns were dropping their bombs much as they have been doing on the country round without any particular object.
Yesterday an acquaintance showed me a letter from an air raid warden friend, who had helped to capture a German airman.
And on the man Pa was found a map on which hospitals were specially marked for attack.
Sir Christopher Wren's Work famous Japanese rock gardens are at present in a quandary over the refusal of transportation companies to deliver their stones to purchasers, says the "Asahi."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.