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Having astonished the delegates into attention, Mr. Chu cried with devastating suddenness...
Chinese Defy. The wily and irrepressible Chinese representative on the Council of the League, Chu Chao-hsin again* exploded a bombshell of anti-British propaganda at Geneva. Meek-eyed, expressionless, he requested the floor for four minutes. While many a delegate yawned, he announced that he would present to the League a copy of the Ku Chin Tu Shu Chi Cheng. This he explained is the Chinese Encyclopaedia, in 800 volumes, containing 800,000 pages, and requiring for storage purposes nine large bookcases...
...small errata in TIME, July 19, "Prairie Pantaloon" [p. 20] a) The father of Will Rogers was also of Cherokee descent, with about the same per cent of Indian blood, as the mother of the "Ambassador." No connection with Jingo, living or dead, b) Colonel Mulhall, not Muhlbach. POLLY CHU-WA-LOOKY...
From the context of both articles it is apparent that both are intended to cover one and the same quotation. I am curious to know whether Mr. Chu said "anti-British" or "anti-foreign." Under the circumstances of the entire affair, TIME'S quotation would seem more logical. Mr. Chu has more or less anti-European prejudice but has never indicated any such prejudice against America...
...Chu said "anti-British" according to despatches cabled to the U. S. British correspondents very generally toned down his remarks...