IN THE FAR EAST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 12

IN THE FAR EAST.

TRIBULATIONS OF AN EMPEROR. Fairplay, a London publication, sums up the political situation in China in poetical fashion, v follows :— REFLECTIONS OF PU VI, EMPEROR OF CHINA. iETAT, 7. Why for no lettee me alone, My welly small and young, Yet allo man he piece of stone, At China side have flung? Kwang Hsu have makee dead long time, My littee more than seven, No «avee how to rule sublime, Like plopa Son of Heaven. My no have got one single flen', Who care about Pu Vi, But plenty got like Sun Vat Sen, ' Who waochee kill poor me. That Boxer man he welly bad, No likee, Manchu olan, Suppoßo my dead too mucheo glad, He numpah one bad man, "One piecee chilo no can fight," My talkee Wai Wu Pu, < "More better send one chit golite," "So' fashion no can do !" Yuan Shi Kai he oleva* man, No wanchee lose ha head, My think cold feet have got, Yuan, More likee stop in bed. That German man have take Kiaou Chao, No askee "By your leave," He call me one verpfiuchter Chow, And makee laugh in sleeve. , , "You plenty savee Mailed Fist?' He takee Klismas Bun, No German likee stop in mist, He wanchee place in Sun." Maskee what Kong Fu Tei' have fesy,"' *'"■ No can escape from fate, My allee same that common clay, More better abdicate! ,