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...gorillas, of which he estimated there were but 100 left in Uganda. He reported that there were perhaps 150 white rhinoceroses still at large and called attention to their placid, inquisitive, harmless nature. He said, as all big game hunters know, that the water buffalo was still the terror of the water holes. And he said (here was where the slayers of large animals rejoiced) that elephants are far from dwindling in Uganda...
This was, of course, an allusion to the formal charges of the Soviet Government last fortnight that Britain means to launch war upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...
...this terror, gentlemen? No! It is hardly even severity. Is it terrorism? No! These measures are measures of social hygiene, of national prophylactics. I remove certain individuals from contact with their fellowmen, as a doctor would segregate one affected with infectious disease...
...Hankow, seat of the most radical Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling Hankow from all directions except the Northwest. Thus the fall of Hankow, and butchery of actual as well as so-called "Reds" there, seemed last week momentarily imminent...
Said Mr. Butler, in effect: Western Republicans are very fond of President Coolidge. The third term bogey strikes terror nowhere. Nobody is considering any 1928 candidate other than the President...