(but hardly right enough) is the verdict on a recent Imperial Edict conferring Double Dragons on those foreigners who helped to organise the Red Cross Society during the Into war. Mr. Tenney as the Hon. Treasurer and Secretary, and Drs Atterbury, Fraser, Irwin, and James fo their services here, and two others (names unknown but Ithink of French nationality) for work at Shimonoseki. It is also reported here that Herr Mandl has received a high decoration for his services in ordnance supply.
HAWKS DINNA PIKE OOT HAWKS' EEN, and perhaps it is ungracious of us to find fault with our native colleagues; but the last issue of the Peking and Tientsin Limes has a well founded complaint against one of your (N.-C. D. N.) native correspondents here for inaccurate and iis-leading {information about Mr. Wu Jim-pao, the Bank compradore. Unhappily it is true that your columns are being used to Mr. Wu's serious detriment in native official circles. The misinformation may have been a mistake, but it looks uncommonly like an enemy sowing tares. This brings me to a reference to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.