24 JULY 1941, Page 4

History repeats itself, sometimes rather too literally. I printed last

week a letter, in picturesque English, which h reached me from Hong-kong. It appears that the same lett reached another London paper some fourteen years ago, one or two of my correspondents had inconveniently k cuttings of it. But it is good enough, all the same, to st an airing once a decade. V.