CHINA: Quiet Week

The grand old Duke of York He had ten thousand men. He marched them up a hill one day Then he marched them down again.

CHORUS

And when they were up they were up! And when they were down they were down! But when they were only half way up, hey were neither up nor down!

Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty....

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