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Page 57
... Wei - hai - wei , and there have been a lot of islands in between ; but there have been a lot of years , too , and , with no diary to keep one straight , the events connected with one island sometimes become confused with the geography ...
... Wei - hai - wei , and there have been a lot of islands in between ; but there have been a lot of years , too , and , with no diary to keep one straight , the events connected with one island sometimes become confused with the geography ...
Page 61
... Wei - hai - wei is itself an island , and here was the hot weather head- quarters of the China Fleet . The Commander - in - Chief was a man with a face of granite and a heart of flint , difficult to serve and not an easy man to live ...
... Wei - hai - wei is itself an island , and here was the hot weather head- quarters of the China Fleet . The Commander - in - Chief was a man with a face of granite and a heart of flint , difficult to serve and not an easy man to live ...
Page 62
... hai - wei after an exercise . For two hours she had been in some kind of muddled communication with a small Japanese ... Wei - hai - wei . Sampans plying for hire were licensed and numbered ; No. 424 was chauffeured by Chung Ling Soo and ...
... hai - wei after an exercise . For two hours she had been in some kind of muddled communication with a small Japanese ... Wei - hai - wei . Sampans plying for hire were licensed and numbered ; No. 424 was chauffeured by Chung Ling Soo and ...
Contents
A BADELYNG OF DUCKS BY EPOPEUS | 96 |
A DESOLATE COW COUNTRY BY GEORGE ALMOND | 384 |
A NIGHT ON PEAK ISLAND BY NORMAN HINTON | 480 |
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