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NA MAIL DE
3, 1937.
What's troubling you this morning? Have you “doticed Have you got
eddythig udusual?
A CODE
"HAV
ID THE DOZE!
In fact, it was the kind of novel with hot cotton-wool
AVE you noticed," said my teeth grated on the hard crust and
friend, how many people the pieces of burnt bread suddenly that keeps me awake. to be walking about with turned into iron filings in my colds or are down with 'fn?”*
seem
"Doh," I said, "I 'abbn doticed anythig unusual”
That was the start of it all.
It It began with a sniff. pro- gressed to a loss of appetite. It developed into a succession of hot and-shivery spells.
But even when I told my friend that I hadn't seen any signs of a crop of colds. or outbreak of autumn fu, I didn't realise the fact I know now.
I've got 'flu.
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mouth.
Now I have thrown it aside.
waxen plugs.
with
The second night promised well I know that there aren't any and disappointed me. I had de- I don't want to eat: I've got flu. sacred rubies; that there are no. cided to cure myself. Before I handsome detectives who can con- went to bed, early, I drank hot duct a flirtation while saving the milk and whisky and took three In the saucer of the tea-cup is a Empire for Britain; that Burmese aspirins cigarette, quarter-smoked. I had a priests cannot slink through Lon few puffs and the cigarette tasted don streets without being pulled like the fumes of a chemical works, up by the police.
I don't want to smoke: I've got au.
-
In fact, it's all a lot of nonsense. I don't want to read: I've
On the carpet, a few feet away, 'flu is a detective thriller-a really good one I started last week-end.
It seemed grand. There was 2 sacred Burmese ruby that had
got
Five days ago I was working on been stolen by a Chinaman, who a sales report at the office. I had brought it to London. There were been travelling throughout the
I am writing this at home. I am some Burmese priests who vowed country to get the information sitting by a fire which seems far to recover the ruby and kill the and I'm ready to bet I got the 'flu too hot except when a draught thief. There was a mysterious germ on the night train from New- stabs me between the shoulders. enemy of the British Empire who castle to King's Cross.
was trying to build up the situa- tion into a Far-Eastern revolt.
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Near my chair is a little table On the table is a cup of tea. It has gone cold. When they brought it in, it was hot but it tasted hor rible.w a thin film is forming on the urface of the cold tea..
If someone doesn't come in soon and take it away, I'll be sick. I
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I enjoyed working on that re- port: it was a little gem of enter- prise.
There was a beautiful girl who, for some reason, had fallen into Now I'm not interested in the firm. Our goods are no better and his power.
no worse than our competitors”. Our salesmen are a lot of bone heads who told me lies.
There was a handsome young detective, attached to the Special»- Branch of Scotland Yard, whose duty it was to rob the robber and There is also a half-eaten piece restore the ruby to the Burmese of toast. I tried to eat it but my priests.
know it.
THE
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
THAT ‘0”, exclaimed the cock-
His learning he picked up during
Wney tourist before a beau-his many leisure hours in gaol.
tiful painting at the Louvre, "what price that?" "Pardon, M'sien,” said the polite attendant, "but it is not by Watteau and it is not for sale
The son of a railroad worker and
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a charwoman, he is abundantly alive: Fand is blessed with a gay and in- tellectual wife, not afraid to wear
e clothes.
Eight down and one to go. Com rade Stalin has shot eight of his You should know about Voroshi- generals, and put the survivor, Voros- lov, whether you want to or not, hilov, in a position which you or I because at any moment he may be might find embarrassing
come a world figure.
But the real answer, they say, is Perhaps a bit too impetuous and that Voroshilov is already chosen as life-loving, one might say of this Stalin's successor, the man who is dictator-elect. to lead Russia to the
and abundant life" which so many Rus- sians have awaited so long.
They used to say that when Trotsky appeared in public on horse the public cried out, "What a
After the shooting of the other eight generals he did a most bour- geois thing, which must have-count led against him. He apologised.
Not for the shooting, of course, but for the time it had taken unmask the wickedness of the other
Industry and commerce can go to blazes as far as I'm concerned: I've got 'Au.
bad
In a few hours the pillow had
changed to a moist sponge, the bed was playing see-saw, and the room was going round and round. Still, it seemed a cure.
-Until I awoke with pains in every limb and a head that seemed to have a mad swing-orchestra înside
it.
Oh, I've had visitors.
Phyllis came with some black grapes, a smile and a cheery mes-- sage.
I hate grapes 1. wish girls wouldn't grin. Cheery messages are fatuous, anyway.
I don't care if she never says "Yes": I've got 'flu.
When I read the newspapers in
the other side cramped, bed one side of me got cold and
But I warn you. Things look pretty bad in Europe to-day. There's going to be a war with plenty of bombs and gas and barbed wire and tanks.
And can you call it "peace" when en in this country people are mandering one another. cheating, lying, fighting, gossiping ?-
And I'm half glad to see it. The world's a measly place at the best, The first night of it wasn't so and most people match this planet. though bad enough I was Why a stray comet didn't end it all hot. I tossed aside the bedclothes. a few million years ago is more than I kept dreaming. I was in an I can understand. African swamp surrounded by hor- rible beasts who kept speaking to Ime in the voice of our boss.
So let the wars start any old time. Why shouldn't someone else suffer?
I don't care about anything: I've
Next morning my eyes, nose, throat and ears seemed to be stop- ped-up. My eyes with red-hot cin- got 'flu. ders; my nose with glue; my throat
ADVICE
Go to bed. I know that's stale advice, but it's much more com- fortable there. You don't infect other people, and there's no rick of an undignified journey home in an ambulance after fainting in the street.
For the straightforward, simple 'fin, where you just feel like death and ache all over take two aspirins" and two soda mints every three hours. Don't have an eiderdown and, if you sweat a lot, get someone to give you a hot sponge down a blanket bath.
Drink lots of soft drinks and take a diet of milk foods, eggs, fruit and cream or ice cream, a
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On the second day of your misery, have a good strong sedütz powder.
they
fort
joy!
That was weakness, but he can
But that when Voroshilov rode by generais. they shouted, "What a horse
Voroshilov, nevertheless, is a man live it down. of courage and learning.
And when there comes, as I be His courage he found in the relieve there will, a period of indul volution: indeed, as far back as 1905, gence in Russia generally, he will
when as a riveter be led early so viets among the workers.
make an admirable leader new and abundant life."
If you have cough or a cold in the head, take a teaspoonful
By Dr. Ivor Beaumont
the earls
very two hours as well as thes: be burnt afterwards and don't Infect
worst is over, a little beer
appetite, but I did my z
8. no time for a carous
› food at all. Sip
in it. Take a teaspoonfu, of
diarrhoea, without sickness.
the infection-and-
diarrhoea..
kind of 'in is the eumonie kind. pain in the chest, with difficult. breathing and a
wise to
on his list
ing
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 28, 1957.
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CHINESE SET TSINANFU ON FIRE PRIOR TO RETREAT
Japanese Take Shantung Capital Without Fight
HUNDREDS OF SHELLS
POURED INTO VACATED CITY
Shanghai, To-day.
Reliable Chinese reports here admit that the Japanese are in control of Tsinanfu.
The despatch reads "The enemy entered the city only to find it empty, our troops having retired southwards following orders from General Han Fu-chu."
Not a single Chinese soldier, it The Japanese admit surprise at is reported, was killed, when the the lack of resistance encountered Japanese entered the city at 5 on their advance to the city. The am. yesterday, as there were troops opposite Tsinanfu crossed none to offer resistance.
(during the night on 26th., and even-1 The Chinese troops have retired tually entered the city early yes- to the vicinity of the White Horse (terday morning to find it deserted Mountains, where they have taken by Chinese military. up positions.
“TSINGTAO TENSE
AIRPORT OCCUPIED
BRITISH LOSSES IN GALILEE ENCOUNTER
Jerusalem, To-day
Two British soldiers, who were wounded in an engagement with Arab rebels on Christmas Day in the Hills of Galilee, have since died
At least thirty Arabs were kill- ed in the engagement in this area.
-Reuter
AMERICANS
EVACUATING TSINGTAO
SEVENTH PROVINCIAL
CAPITAL TAKEN
be the
on
vely
Tsinanfu, capita the seventh prov occupied by the T Sino-Japanese hosti July 7, the others being Partingfu (Hopen) Taryuanfu (Shansi), Kwetsui (Suyuan), Chin- kiang (Kiangsu), Kalgan (Chahan and Hangchow (Chekiang).
The Japanese officially daim that the four days fighting which preced- Jed fall of Tsinanfu cost them only
120 casualties.
They say that before retreating, the Chinese set fire to all important buildings, including the Japanese Consulate-General, as well as the headquarters of General Han· Fn- chu, Governor of Shantung
WALLED CITY IN FLAMES
Shanghai, To-day. Following the advice of the The Tsinanfu Aerodrome is also State Department in Washing- Tsingtao, it was learned last night now in Japanese hands, though it, ton, a number of Americans are
A battle is raging had been rendered useless.
evacuating Tsingtao for Shang-
The entire walled city, according is very tense. between the Japanese and the Shan- The Japanese admit that the Chin hai to-morrow on board the to Japanese press reports, appeared tung troops about 50 miles west of ese suffered very slight losses, while United States gunboat Sacra- to be in flames when the conquering the port, but what is most feared their casualties amounted to only
The United States light crui-i It will be recalled that Tsinan here is a bombardment from the 125, killed while crossing the River air and sea. The Japanese fleet out-opposite the city.
ser Marblehead, the destroyer was occupied by the Japanese for side the harbour has been consider- The Chinese troops have retired Pope and the British cruiser one year from May, 1928, following HMS. Suffolk, are remaining at the clash between the Japanese and southwards Our Own Correspon Tsingtao. Benter.
ably increased-Our Own pondent
Corres-
WASTE OF AMMUNITION
Shanghai, To-day.
since
Shelling Tsinautu
-last Thursday from artillery positions mounted on hills along the north bank of the Yellow River overlook- ing the city, and besieging it from the east and west for three days, wasting an enormous amount of ammunition, the Japanese occupied Tsinanfu yesterday morning only to find it empty of Chinese troops and blazing like a furnace, follow- ing the setting afire of all import- ant buildings in the city by the Chinese.
RIVER CROSSING.
Last Thursday the Japanese ad vanced on Tsinanfu from east and west having crossed the Yellow River at a point 20 kilometres west of the town and at another point about 50 kilometres east.
Both crossings took place under cover of darkness with no casualties being registered.
The troops, consisting of two divi- sivas, completed the crossing at am on Christmas Eve.
LONG BOMBARDMENT
The Japanese heavy artillery mounted on the hills opposite Tainan- fu on the north bank of the Yellow River, opened fire on the city on 23rd supported by numerous bombers. This bombardment continued until
the 26th at about 10 pm. when the investing Japanese troops besieging from the east and west reached the walls of the city.
dent.
The Empress of Russia is due in Hong Kong to-morrow at 5 pm and will go into Kowloon Dock for an- nual overhaul after completion of discharge of cargo.
mento.
troops entered.
General Chiang Kai-shek's Nation- alist troops then advancing north- east on Peking.
Japanese troops who descended
WEDDING AT from the Yellow River are now as-
REGISTRY
tride the Tsinan-Tsingtao Railway at Changtien, 65 miles from Chang- tien, and have begun to advance on
The wedding of Mr. Tan Hong Tsingtao. Gee, mechanical engineer, residing Chinese troops are entrenching at at No. 572, Nathan Road, and Miss Weihsin, the important railway The E. and A. liner, Nankin, left Sun Ping-sui, of No. 7, Cliff Road, town between Changtien and Tsing- Kobe for Hong Kong on Christmas Kowloon, took place at the Registry tao, but there is little prospect of Eve and is due here on Thursday this morning, Mr. W. A. Jones, Re- their effectively checking the morning.
gistrar of Marriages, officiating. panese-Reuter
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