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"RUDE AWAKENING,"›
Tsingtao, May 10.
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his search for the
When the failure of negotia- TOBERMORY TROVE. tions resulted in a clash of arms : the Japanese set themselves first to the task of clearing the west and south suburbs of Nationalist troops, but a large number, estim-
SUNKEN SPANISH BULLION. ated at from four to six thousand retired within the city walls and
The announcement that Lieuten- Eagerness to tell something opened fire on the Japanese from ant-Colonel K. M. Foss, of London,
On Tuesday, la to regume about the important events at Tai- these elevations. nan and the feverish willingness May 8, the complete rout of the large amount of bullion supposed of a gullible public to accept any troops outside was so manifest thing at all rather than endure that the Japanese were able to to lie in the strong rooms of the ill- fated Spanish Armada ship the agony of silence resulted is attack the city also, which attack an orgy of wild telegrams and was in progress when the last "Florencia," which was blown ap rumours last week that brought train left on Wednesday morning. in Tobermory Bay in 1588, shame to the cheeks of every re- From the vigour with which it aroused considerable interest and
was be-speculation. putable reporter. It was plainly was being pushed, it
have required no nobody's business to contradict lieved to these absurd rumours. On the more than a day for its accom- one hand, the reports of tremen- plishment.
dous Nationalist advances with
An Unpleasant Awakening.
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Strangely enough, although Colonel Foss is convined that thera is wealth beyond all dreams in the wreck of the galleon which lies somewhere in the bay, hidden by
an ever-rising tide of anti-foreign Several Nationalist officers, feeling furnished the Japanese Whampoa graduates, who found the allt of centuries, fecal opinion with more justification for their a few sympathetic cars into which has it that if the ship ever really military preparations. On the they could pour their woel, are
contained treasure it was removed other hand, every tale of Japan- said to have burst into tears of before the ship was blown up, the the aggression gave the National-helpless rage and disappointment "Morning Fost" is informed by a ists ground for fanning the anti-over the debacle of their troops. correspondeat at Oban. Japanese movement into hot flame.
"After this," they wept, "we can never hope to establish our Na-
The sinking of the "Florencia" was a mysterious affair, and many and varied are the versions of the
It was not until the special tional Government." train from Tsinan arrived on the Making due allowance for the incident. Previous endeavours to night of the 8th, bringing some hysteria of the moment, these locate the galleon were bandicapped 26 American and British refugees young officers have revealed by the fact that time and the con- that we were able to get any great deal of truth about them-tinual movements of the sand had authentie information of this his-selves and their cause. They had completely covered up all trace of
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