The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-05-01


dressing the secretary, when the
news Of the surrender Of the Philip.
pines was received?"
Eyes, your lordship."
What excuse had the government
to make for such unwarranted &C.
tion?"
"None whatever"
'Do you mean to say that they sui.
fered without, protest or defense the
surrender of a fortification which cost
millions of pounds, was adequately
equipped and able to repel successfully
the attack of such a feet as Japan
sent against it?"
Eyes, they even accepted it com.
%placently."
From round the oom came muir.
murs of a%mazement, while the rustic
Of newspapers showed the anxiety Of
those present to CLEAN what informa-
ton they could be perusal. Losing
their phlegmatic air of self possession
dAu CdSLlU6 O1lC1dl Sill W ~ la
they bombarded Hitler with questions,
which in the main he was unable to
answer. The voice of the stately lord
of the admiralty rose above the others
in a sudden, insistent petulant ques-
ton.
do you know anything else worth
while?" he asked.
mo" answered Hitler, II have nc
knowledge other than that which l
have given to you, which in itself
was gathered elsewhere than from an
absolutely silent and secretive gov
eminent"
The prime minister, as if recog-
nizing their informant's plight, in a
friendly ont of voice said: "Mr. Hill
lier, l presume you are tired after
your Journey and would like to rest
before any further discussion of this
subject. l would suggest that you go
to your chambers and return here to-
morrow"
what sense is there in his re-
turning?" came the angry question OF
the lord of the admiralty, as n sec
rotary bowed himself out of the room.
"He doesn't even know, l presume,
that Japan is already sending every
available ship she has against the
western coast of America as fast as
steam will carry it."
Sending an invading fleet against
IN apparently passive country in some
part of which was the woman ne
loved! This thought reiterated itself
through Guys mind as he passed down
the corridor and out into the din n
movement Of the street. Where
could she be now, he wondered, and
what of her father? Insane, perhaps,
and incapable of Offering her protec-
ton of which she would stand so sadly
IN need in case Of Japanese success.
The words of a letter which he a r
ried in his pocket, and which to him
was of more Importance than the dis
patches he delivered, constantly re-
Cured to him:
1T is always within the realms OF
possibility, when war is on a land,
that friends may never meet again. II
such should be our case, l pray that
you will remember this, even up to the
last loved you"
In the dusk of early evening an
army Of countless men and women
hurrying. to the trans, the tubes n
the buses, swept past him ignorant OF
his misery. What wa war to them
in q country thousands Of miles across
q sea and in which perhaps there was
none bound to them by ties OF anec-
ton? The United States might $50
late itself by sea and intrench itself
behind cordons of soldiers; but ne
would 20 back! Yes. he would ind
. way to pass all their barriers ana
gain the side Of the woman who mer.
tied his protection through her avowed
love. and in this, her hour OF need'
seemed crying out to him across the
uttermost spaces Of the world. be-
seeching him to return-only to 70
turnl