At the beginning of December, the position was that the Chinese still insisted upon the suspension of hostilities without reservations—an attempt to save the Chinchow area from Japanese hands—while the Japanese declared that they must have a free hand to deal with bandits after the suspension of hostilities—bandits being an elastic phrase which, as events proved, was employed to cover operations against regular Chinese forces thirty thousand strong.

Simply put, practicing good cyberhygiene should be taught in elementary schools from the age of 6 onwards.

For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble, / The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve, / They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers-- / And if anyone hinders our coming you'll starve!

And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.