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LIAR DICE-J. S. Mosher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Up-to-date international intrigue around the U. S. Consulate in Tientsin, China, provides a tense background for the double murder of a U. S. businessman, a high Chinese official. Author Mosher knows his China (he was born there, served in the U. S. Consular Service...
...immediate effect-to be so startling that the world would at once accede to dismemberment of Poland-the bitter laugh was on them. Poland behaved as if nothing had happened. Britain, France got madder if possible. Italy went into her oldtime wobbling act. Japan began slapping Germans in Tientsin. Catholic Spain was outraged...
...British stiffened in Hong Kong, blowing up bridges joining the Crown Colony with Japanese-held territory, the Japanese simultaneously weakened in Shanghai, where 6,000 troops had been landed with the announced intention of "taking some action against the International Settlement." The troops took no action. In Tientsin, the Japanese were washed out by the worst flood in the city's history. The Chinese gave the Japanese a setback on their own in Shansi Province, where the Japanese have been carrying on an unenthusiastic campaign all summer...
...pale the old chap went, that poor old Mr. John, When sentries stood before the British Concession! He ground what teeth he had, and stripped right to the skin; That wasn't nice for him-ha! ha! in Tientsin...
...what a lot was lost to him- Not only there in Tientsin...