Once more she was back in the world where for the last two years had lain her chief interests.

She took the papers in her hand and began reading them quickly through.

Every now and then a little exclamation broke from her lips.
"You will observe," her companion pointed out, looking over her shoulder, "that on paper, at any rate, Japan is the great gainer.

She takes Australia, New Zealand and India.

China absorbs Thibet and reestablishes her empire of forty years ago.