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advanced years (we blush to remember it) had been the cause of so much secret criticism of his command."
IV
Extract from the Leading Article of the most Popular Journal of the Utopian Republic, same date.
"Citizens, awake! All ye that kneel, arise! Ares (the god of battles) has breathed upon the enemy, and he has been destroyed! The cowardly mercenaries who handle the gold of Patagonia have broken and fled before our troops upon the very first occasion when their reputed valour was put to the test. The glorious and aged Mitza has guaranteed that the next news will be that of their complete submission. It will then be for the Government to decide whether our victorious lads should complete a triumphant march upon the Patagonian capital or whether it may not be preferable to wring from that corrupt and moribund society such an indemnity as shall make them for ever impotent to disturb the frontiers of free men."
V
Extract from the Note of the Military Expert of the aforesaid weighty and reputable journal of the Capital of Patagonia: A Journalist.
"It is not easy to reconstruct from the fragmentary telegrams that have come through from the
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