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16, 1937.

No Sighs

Nothing, it has been said, is sacred to a sapper, and nothing apparently is too unwieldly to be BLOODY SATURDAY-stolen by a daring thief. But high in the scale of audacity The menace that hangs must be put the theft for the en- over Shanghai while bitter foes tire four-ton leaden roof of the make of its environs à battle zone Bridge of Sighs in Venice. Some could not have been more tra will think it might have been gically, more forcefully exposed well, in the interests of Venetian than it was by the stunning douamenities, if the thieves, while ble calamity of Saturday. More they were about it, had stolen than six hundred persons

the bridge also, for it is not a chiding at least eleven foreigners, thing of beauty, and Byron's lost their lives within the ce romantic picture, tral area of the International tlement when misdirected bombs in the one case, and bombs drop ped with less obvious explanation in the other, fell into the middle is just Byronic rhapsody af congested streets. The domin-famous bridge is a rather heav ant feeling even at this distance looking structure, although is one of profound shock and horis a certain gra ror, it is not diffenlt to imagine its one arch. Ruskin wa the tension and anxiety that must donically destructive reside to-day in Shanghai itself. Byronic view, and wrote:

I sfood in Venice on the Bridge

of Sighs,

A palace and a prison on each

hand,

The

The Venice of modern fiction

and drama is a thing of yester day, a mere efflorescence, of de- car, a stage dream which the first ray of daylight must dis-- sipate into dust. No prisoner whose name is worth remem- bering or whose sorrow deserv-

Strong protests have been lodged at Nanking and a full in- vestigation has been promised. But these are steps which can furnish no solution, much less satisfaction. If Saturday's events are viewed in as dispassionate a light as is possible with the stag- gering loss of life still judgmented sympathy ever crossed that influencing, they must be

seen

"Bridge of Sighs" which is the centre of the Byronic ideal of Venice; no great merchant of Venice ever saw that Rialto under which the traveller BOW passes with breathless inter- est.

as among those dread mischances that were at all times to be fear- led and are still to be feared while China and Japan continue to fight with part of the Interna- tional Settlement as one of the main sectors of combat. The The police of Venice are mean- very ground of Admiral Hase while wondering by what magic gawa's rejection of Captain Ben-the thieves contrived to get away son's suggestion that the Idzumo unnoticed with such a cumbrous move her position, taking the load and what they are going essence of his meaning, contams, to do with four tons of lead from a military point of view, all

the necessary justification of the Spartan Training Chinese attempts to bomb the

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ship. In short, adequate safe Conditions in modern public guards against repetition of such schools, which the Head Master mass tragedies can be provided of Clifton fears "are in dang only by forthright action by the becoming too comfort Powers whose interests are at certainly have stake. As the Manchester Guar- Etonians of a dian" proclaimed before stark pecially those reality lent additional point, this Long Chamber is no time for arguments as King's Conegé, between right and wrong. The to tell how a power of reason has long ceased sought to obtakua to apply to the situation. the Univerny Le Saturday's tale of death and Company, and, on destruction may not have been vain if only the principal Power discover from if that their

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New ideas were put forward, and safe life!”