TAILIEUCHUNG - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY -Calloway's Code

SHORT STORY BY O’HENRY Calloway's Code Đây là một serries truyện ngắn anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh | SHORT STORY BY O HENRY Calloway s Code The New York Enterprise sent H. B. Calloway as special correspondent to the Russo-Japanese-Portsmouth war. For two months Calloway hung about Yokohama and Tokio shaking dice with the other correspondents for drinks of rickshaws -- oh no that s something to ride in anyhow he wasn t earning the salary that his paper was paying him. But that was not Calloway s fault. The little brown men who held the strings of Fate between their fingers were not ready for the readers of the Enterprise to season their breakfast bacon and eggs with the battles of the descendants of the gods. But soon the column of correspondents that were to go out with the First Army tightened their field-glass belts and went down to the Yalu with Kuroki. Calloway was one of these. Now this is no history of the battle of the Yalu River. That has been told in detail by the correspondents who gazed at the shrapnel smoke rings from a distance of three miles. But for justice s sake let it be understood that the Japanese commander prohibited a nearer view. Calloway s feat was accomplished before the battle. What he did was to furnish the Enterprise with the biggest beat of the war. That paper published exclu- sively and in detail the news of the attack on the lines of the Russian General on the same day that it was made. No other paper printed a word about it for two days afterward except a London paper whose account was absolutely incorrect and untrue. Calloway did this in face of the fact that General Kuroki was making his moves and living his plans with the pro- foundest secrecy as far as the world outside his camps was concerned. The correspondents were forbidden to send out any news whatever of his plans and every message that was allowed on the wires was censored -- with rigid severity. The correspondent for the London paper handed in a cablegram describing Kuroki s plans but as it was wrong from beginning to end the censor grinned and let it go through. So .

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