26th Aug. Our correspondent "R. I. P." is hard to reason with because the reasoning he endeavours to controvert is of his own invention, It isa mistake to say that we have avoided saying what out Government should or could have done, W: have asked our Government to main! its own principle of the " open door to prevent Russia taking away the rights we have justly acquired in North China; in the particular instance of the moment to insist on the maintenance of the contract made by the Hongkong Bank for the extension of the railway is made'to show only grey against the light: inst tedd. of black. Oscar Wilde Since its opening some twelve years from Shanhaikuan to Newchwang. We says that to be suggestive for fiction is to be of more importance than a fact; and: adds that there is no essential "ago it has done a vast amount of good to a most helpless and otherwise neglected class: of sufferers; its work are not urging our Government to wndertake an extension of our empire or new responsibilities; only to keep open
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