He flung the cloak most melodramatically over his left arm—took off the plumed hat, whose white feathers swept the floor—shewed a pair of silver-mounted pistols, and a dark-blue doublet laced with crimson and gold, and a worked falling collar.

2 Two thousand Japanese troops are concentrated at Shumchun, railroad town opposite Hong Kong border. …5 Chinese say they have recovered control of the railway from Sheklung to Shumchun. Reports also are that the Japanese have transferred many troops to the Indo-China border.

He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.

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