It rained like a seive, and all the gentlemen riders fell off, and every time we won money our thirty ricksha men who would tell when we won by watching at which window we had bet, would cheer us and salaam until to save our faces we had to scatter largesses.

Egan turned up in the evening and dined with John and Cecil and me in the Grand Hotel and told us first of all the story the correspondents had brought back to Kobbe for which every one from the Government down has been waiting.

It would make lively reading if any of us dared to write it.

To-day he made his protests to Fukushima as we mapped them out last night and the second lot will I expect be treated better.

But, as the first lot were the important men representing the important syndicates the harm, for the Japs, has been done.