12 NOVEMBER 1994, page 25

`i Hope We Get Something Juicy'

IT WAS a tabloid story and even the more sober of their number reported it with unexamined hyperbole. 'The Boy Beyond the Law', screamed the front page of the Daily Mail. 'Death......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE NEWS of the week is terribly bad for China. To put the matter broadly, neither the Chinese soldiers nor the Chinese sailors will fight for their coun- try. Marshal Yamagata......