The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-16
THE CHINESE DRAGONS
VISIT TO EUROPE

brisk and devil may care fling" The
band played Yankee doodle doc"
Some lettering on a blackboard was held
upon the Arkansas for the Mauretania
people to read. II offered the friendly
advice. do a bolt" Certainly the
Arkansas was in the way. A shell from
the Germans blew off some of her top
works. "Whereupon he'll and frenzy
broke UP through the ocean that morn
Ing" and ut is not good to play with
volcanoes" and the feverish Germans
wanted Yankee doodle and they got
it,; but alas! the Arkansas also got It.
for a shell burst in her magazine with
consequence that was stupendous, and
is described.
Says the story: "A fame seems to
have run through and through her
and she set to suffering such tons of
laundering like H1tna rhetoric as mo
tongue can tell took the ocean and
shook II as dreader and still dreader
she roared and roared in that redness
OF her death throes, while what was
left OF her 500 men was seen through
a volcano of reek leaping from her in
every direction like sprats spatterlng
from a trap net; then, like an old lion
which after roaring grufiiy guns from
his CUTS a humph OF venom, and again
a humph, and humph, and is done and
grunts. his eruption hushed, his say
said. or like a pump which after pour
ing chucks a gush and a gush and
a gush. and is done. and grunts. its
eruption hushed, so the Arkansas, after
laundering, thumped humph and
humph, and humph from her drum to
the sun, and was done, her death an
them chanted, her death passion pas
stoned and was a skeleton before her
burial. leaving over the sea a mauso-
leum Of smoke" George Meredith never
beat that, and plainly the Arkansas did
not blow up in vain.
Six million pounds OF the French war
indemnity was stored In Spandau. and
the Prince of Wales went over with
fleet OF Chinnery's air boats and got 1t.
He was interrupted. for Oyone, who was
half Japanese, and beautiful devil. and
the profoundly and most strangely
enamored agent of Sky Blue, went out In
another air boat and blew his fleet to
pieces Sky Blue came to be a tremen-
dous power. The story tells how he
sat slipping buttermllk amid the Chinese
lotuses and plotting for the great yell
low inundation of Europe. He made the
millions OF China into an army after the
German plan. He leagued China and
Japan and brought his yellow hordss
over the Ural Mountains and around
by sea In dreadnoughts. Oyone in Lon
don said unpleasantly TO the Prince OF
Wales through the hole in the door of
the room In which she had him locked
up: "All is over with you whites; you
have had your day; this is your mid
night. You do not know he Chinese.
They will fry you in pans like sprats,
with onions. Ii ku says II is Gods
will which Is what he always says
when he wants anything" This dread
full assurance might have proved true
II 1t had not been for Chinnery's Redlike
Ray. bottled substance that only
needed to be uncorked in order to strike
everybody blind.
1t was good where Oyone. who
thought to decoy the Prince of Wales.
was lassoed by Pitcher an American.
who was brought up on the prairles.
Pitcher had cast his lasso several times.
the last time successfully. The story
says here: THE last cast caused him
to fall fiat forward; but the tug told
that he had got something: an agony of
angry cat screams told and soon he
was over her. his handkerchief down her
throat" There was a tremendous noise
when the yellow feet was blown up.
having been lured most cleverly over its
own torpedoes. Tho story says in ade-
quate language: THAT which the ear
feared was suddenly come upon it,
mountains OF overpowering sound: Alp
masses packed upon CotopaXis OF dis
tracted Gathering. like Arctic trumpet
ing rantings to Atlantic in the rumpus
and rush OF Jurassic dramas of disrup-
ton. terroriZing rhetoric. reigning. long
lasting" 1t was a great time altogether,
and the white races have reason to be
thankful to Chimney and Prince Teddy
for bringing them through It.