THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 12, 1987.
THE
WORLD
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GOES BY
FRIEND of mine who wittily
· called out “Excelsior” as I was laboriously scaling an appar- ently interminable flight of stairs the other day recalled that fatuous poem, by Longfellow, if memory
serves aright, of the youth and the banner with the strange device...
Was there anything more fatuous
than the youth in question?
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MME CHIANG WRITES FOR
whole thing is an insult to the in- NEW YORK TIMES
telligence.
Story Of Sian Revolt
Here Mr. Longfellow gives us aļ lad climbing a mountain in the depth of winter. No-one asked him to nor did he do it for a bet. And
Madame Chiang Kai-shek has re- into the bargain, just to make it!
ceived a New York draft for US.-, more assinine, he carried a banner.
| $5,000.00, this being the price paid I put it to you. Is it sane?
And then he comes across a "mai-by The New York Times and the
North den" who says
American Newspaper AL something about
world rights "laying thy weary head upon this liance for exclusive breast." This hospitality
for the serial publication of Gen- part of the wench in question was eral Chiang Kai-shek's Sian diary
from remarkably
December . 12 generous, considering dating that she had never seen the fellow 25, last year. before.
on the
to
The manuscript, more than one Again, I put it to you. Would third of which is an introduction any normal man plod on through by Madame Chiang, detailing her the snow (and with a banner, too) experiences at Nanking at the time while here before a fireside was a of the Sian coup, her flight to maiden apparently all set for a neck-Sian, and her trying days in the ing party? No, of course `not.
rebel stronghold, runs to about
The sap paid for it, anyway. He 30,000. worda. passed right out and a voice, “like]
Trust Fund
The New York Times began pub- a falling star," called out "Excel-lication of these important docu- sior." Why didn't this voice call ments on April 16, and planned to out "Silly idiot” or
something publish about 3,000 words a day for similar? The youth was a dyed-10 days. Many other important in-the-wool chump.
American and European news- To turn from cold to heat. There papers will secure publication was the boy who stood on the burn-rights from the North ́ ́ American ing deck. This, of course, is a clas-Newspaper Alliance. sic, and is quoted by everyone on every conceivable occasion as an This money, which will be con-- outstanding example of youthful verted into nearly $17,000 in heroism. Here again I disagree. Chinese currency, is to be used by If you remember, “All but he Madame Chiang Kai-shek as the had fled. Note that well. "All but nucleus for a trust fund which he had fled.” The others were will be expended for the welfare of wise guys. They beat it. But not the families of the 21 members of this sap. He stayed rooted to a the Generalissimo's bodyguard who burning deck. För What? He were murdered the morning. Gen- couldn't do any good. Nelson had eral Chiang was made prisoner near already won the battle. Of course, Sian.
like the mountaineering youth, he Additional funds for these fami- came to a sticky end. Perhaps it lies will be secured from the pro- was for the best, however. I feel fits from the sale of these manu- that if he had lived he would have seripts in book form in China, and ended up in a funatic asylum.
And then take the Spartan youth who, having stolen a fox and hidden it inside his robe, calmly let the animal gnaw his vitals rather than be caught with it in his possession.
What was the good of it all? To begin with, he had absconded with
ed the world book copyright in her elsewhere. Madame Chiang retain-
own name, and last week accepted an offer for an American edition of the book from Double-day, Doran and Company.
somebody else's fox, which makes SILVER WATCH HIS
the morality of the transaction highly dubious. He also showed poor taste. If he must pinch some thing, why not a chicken or some- thing of practical value?
ONLY ASSET
Barry Lupino's Affairs
When creditor of Parry Lupino, And the fox was a bit încredible, music-hall artist, met at London too. Instead of biting through the Bankruptcy-buildings it was stated lad's clothes, he ate his way right that his only asset was a silver through the boy, à messy procedure watch. at best. Or perhaps he was just hungry.
Mr. Lupino was not present and was stated to be ill. Taking it all in all, I have seen No statement of affairs was lodg- more intelligence in the China Mailed, but Mr. Lupino roughly esti office than is provided by the youth mated his liabilities- at £947) with the banner, he of the burning which about £700 was due for in- deck and the fox-stealer, and that, my friends, is saying some mouth- ful
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