Banzai! By: Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich Gautoff

Banzai!

• Author : Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich Gautoff
• Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
• ISBN-13 : 9781459081284

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BANZAI! Chapter I In Manila " Fob God's sake, do leave me in peace with your damned yellow monkeys!" cried Colonel Webster, banging his fist on the table so hard that the whisky and soda glasses jumped up in a fright, then came down again irritably and wagged their heads disapprovingly, so that the amber-colored fluid spilled over the edge and lay on the table in little pearly puddles. " As you like, colonel. I shall give up arguing with you," returned Lieutenant Commander Harry- man curtly. " You won't allow yourself to be warned." " Warned—that's not the question. But this desire of yours to scent Japanese intrigues everywhere, to figure out all politics by the Japanese common denominator, and to see a Japanese spy in every coolie is becoming a positive mania. No, I can't agree with you there," added Webster, who seemed to regret the passionate, outburst into which his temperament had betrayed him. " Really not? " asked Harryman, turning in his comfortable wicker chair toward Webster and looking at him half encouragingly with twinkling eyes. Such discussions were not at all unusual in the Club at Manila, for they presented the only antidote tothe leaden, soul-killing tedium of the dull monotony of garrison duty. Since the new insurrection on Mindanao and in the whole southern portion of the archipelago, the question as to the actual causes of the uprising, or rather the secret authors thereof, continually gave rise to heated discussions. And when both parties, of which one ascribed everything to Japanese intrigue and the other found an explanation in elementary causes, began to liven up, the debate was apt to wax pretty warm. If these discussions did nothing else, they at least produced a sort of mental excitement after the heat of the day which wore out ...

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