To the Editor of the Nonru-Carxa Dany News, Str,—I have noticed more than once letters in your paper pitching into the French with regard to the Ningpo Joss-house affair as doing something " flagrantly unjust" and speaking of the Chinese as in the right" and badly imposed upon. by a foreign nation. As we glean it from your paper the whole case was, as usual, one where the Chinese ignored the foreigner and persistently went back on their contract.
It was said that this Joss-house property had been fussed over twenty yeats ayo or more, and that the French had agreed to relinquish all right to the Chinese. The latter say for ever, but this point is di puted. The Chinese on their part contracted not to bury or stow coffins there, Right here is where the Chinese broke their contract. The Chinese piled up their coffins right along as of yore. Several summers ago, when the natives were dying at the rate of 200 a day it is known that thousands of coffins were stacked up there, and a gentleman residing in Shanghai remarked, he had seen the horrible leakage from some of the coflins, thus jeopardizing the lives of the whole community.
Were not the French right to rid their Settlement of such a charnel house? Were the French bound to hold on to their part of the contract when the Chinese wera
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