Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-03

European settlement Of Hongkong; back
to the Royal Alexandra Hotel. He would
help me in the laying-out and the ultl-
mate achieving of my plans for the md
one unknown man, who was organizing
all Asia into a jagannath with which to
fight and crush the white lands
Clearer and clearer. the shore lines
Jumped into sight. I smiled. Somehow,
a clean scent of home was in the morn
ing air, and ] bent over the oars with
greater enthusiasm
Mascasenhas reacted to my mood. A
smile played about the corners of his
lips and he commenced whistling softly
and tunefully.
But the tune snapped off in midair.
He turned grayish-pale.
1 looked at him in establishment.
whats the matter. Mascasenhas?"
across the river, from Kowloon, a deep.
gursling Concentration loated into the
night air.
It was a temple gong, scientifically
shrieked and sobbed. It was like a hui
man voice speaking-of what?
Mascasenhas clutched the tiller with
both hands.
Listen. master. Listen, Protector of
the Pitiful, Yuan Kee has found out our
came to look. He is sending the alarm
/ motioned to him to be quiet. rested
my oars so as to hear better.
Mascasenhas was right. Yuan kee was
giving the alarm.
4 second later other gongs took up
the refrain. Reed-pipes and drums and
cymbals and tomtoms Joined in the
harsh chorus.
They shrilled to a CHASTITY, mind-freez-
ing pitch. then dropped into an inferno
of unclean, moaning, cruel sounds which
were like the voices of all the lost souls
in Gehenna.
l bent again to the swing Of the oars,
putting every ounce of strength and
energy and despair into the punched play
OF my muscles.
The light sampan jumped truly and
speedily to the strokes
''Honskons"
1 whispered to myself, and prayed for
the clean, white security of the Euro
pean section, the friendly red coat of
Tommy Atkins, the pleasant gray OF
British naval vessels riding the bay.
l must hurry up to the government
house, regardless of the hour, and make
a full report to the British governor. \
Only two nights ago the big, burly
Englishman had paled and trembled as
he told me how pressing matters were,
and implored me to make haste, to find
the one man and to kill him
With substantial detail he had related
to me how the whole Of Asia was
seething with the suppressed fever of
gathering war; how India was in
Tonkin, TO the Philippines and to east
ern Siberia.
He had told me shivering tales of
great European and American colonial
officials mysteriously murdered: of a
japanese attempt TO blow up the de-
Tense works at Pearl harbor; of A
regiment of Brahman Sepoys, stationed
on the border of the Shan states hay-
ing killed their white and loyal native
officers and of their having escaped into
the neighboring Chinese province of
Annoy with the help and connivance
of the Manchu amban who governed it.
And last, but not least, he had told
me of the mysterious wholesale pur-
chases and manufactures of the Chinese
and Japanese governments-powd and
dynamite and chlorin and all the dead
hest instruments of poison and gas
which the great European war had in
vented and developed and used which
Asa would use with thousandfold
strength and thousandfold cruelty
The fact of the purchases and manu-
factures was known. That much the
American and English secret service
men had found out But nobody knew
where they were stored.
Imagine, Vandewater," the governor
mad concluded-''imagine a new Attila
with all the science and efficiency OF
European Attila who will use gas
bombs and dynamite and poison in