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...mob advanced toward the British quarter. A year and a half ago a similar mob was fired on and dispersed for doing the same at Shanghai (TIME, June 15, 1925 et seq.). But a year is a year. Then the Canton National- ists were impotent. Today they hold half China. Therefore the British marines who stood with fixed bayonets to guard the British quarter received the command: "Under no circumstances fire...
...kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since birth that it was better to empty slops than .hear the white man's cannon...
...mob advanced, gibbering, flinging stones. The marines used their rifle butts as clubs, cracked a few crowns, but gently. For four hours the game of bluff and bruises continued. Once 20 coolies, armed only with sticks, bore a British marine to the ground, tore his rifle from him, plunged the bayonet into his heart. Still no shot was fired. Then, suddenly, a troop of Chinese soldiers from the Nationalist stronghold across the river arrived and dispersed the mob with a few shots. The commander blandly explained to the British that he had been delayed. No fool, the British Consul knew...
...more satisfying than Madame Sorel herself. She has been presented with a modern play, a play in which the action deserts the wings on several occasions for the very stage itself; a circumstance quite out of the classical French tradition. An invasion of her castle grounds by a mob and the epilogue wherein she is guillotined furnish her with the harshest of realities. And Madame Sorel treats them with that same graceful, classic restraint which leaves them empty of matter however admirable the form. Give her an abstraction of the more important realities and a concretion of the trivialities...
...told the press last week: "It is generally known that between 40 and 50 persons attired in official Ku Klux Klan regalia paraded through Lyons shortly before Brown was seized and hurried out of town. Brown himself stated to me that there was absolutely no doubt but that the mob members wore the official robes with official insignia...