Taiwan had been colonized by the Chinese in the seventeenth century, and won by the Japanese from China in the 1894-1895 war. The Japanese had done much to develop industry and agriculture on the island. Japan's defeat in World War II restored the island to China, as a separate province. Chiang now declared that Taiwan was still a province of China, and its capital, Taibei, was now the new capital of the nation. The circumstance that 99.7% of the nation's territory was controlled by Communist bandits was only temporary, he said, and he would soon recapture it from them.

King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.

Laſtly, for a theife it is ſo handſome, as it may ſeem it was firſt invented for him

Incidentally, the recent sigless posts were mine, not forgeries. I just had to reinstall Agent and forgot to enable them.