The Archive · 1897

The Defence of the Settlement

To the Euditor of the Nonra-Cutsa Dany News, Sin,—A more amusing ebullition than that of Mr. W. D. Tittle, which appeared in your paper of th i it would he dificult to conceive, He says, "that there must. he one supreme authority, in case of ordinary riot or strike, that of the Chief of Police."

Your yuatded remark, in your "leader" of this date, to the effect that the Chief of Police might or might not be the best man to hold the reins" leads me to think you still call to memory the flaser when our noble defenders" were called to anna" to reinforce the Police after the "rioters" had gone home. who were kept out in the cold to guard the slumbers of the Wheelbarrow Cvolies when they were in bed, and wha probably now desire to allow auch reminiscences to R.I.P.

Tam, ete., "Usper Ans."

Shanghai, 26th November. the Editor st the

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