April 23.—Liberia despatches her one airship to China viâ Tibet. Many bombs are dropped on the Chinese Empire and several rice-fields are quite spoilt. The Chinese Ambassador, whom the airship conveyed from Liberia, is also dropped—and spoilt.
April 24.—China sends four airships to bomb Liberia. These, however, are unable to locate the Black Republic and return, after dispensing with the company of the Liberian Ambassador while over Lake Chad.
April 26.—China addresses a curt Note to Liberia, requesting her to be good enough to state her exact whereabouts.
May 1.—The Grand Lama directs a plaintive Note to Liberia, alleging that on April 23 a Liberian airship violated the neutrality of Tibet.
May 3.—Liberia, never having heard of Tibet, but believing the G.L. to be a species of camel and a great fetish, publishes an apology in The Liberian Times (and Advertiser), which, however, does not circulate in Tibet.
May 4.—China, after exhaustive inquiries, despatches another air-fleet, but again fails to locate her quarry.
May 5.—Liberia again raids China by air. Some stones in the Great Wall are badly chipped.
May 7.—Liberia issues her first official communiqué through the medium of The Liberian Times (and Advertiser):—"On the night of May 5-6 our Naval and Military airship attacked the Chinese cities of Pekin, Hankow and others too intricate of pronunciation to be mentioned here. Incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped on the fortifications, gun emplacements, waterworks and waxworks at Pekin. A battery and many hens were silenced at Hankow. Our entire air-fleet returned safely and hurriedly."
May 9.—The G.L. of Tibet sends another Note to Liberia, protesting against a further grave infringement of neutrality, several eggs of dubious quality and the remnants of an unsavoury stew having been dropped from a Liberian airship on Tibetan territory on the night of May 5-6.
May 11.—Liberia publishes another apology, and sacks her air chef.