The Archive · 1899

Dr. W. Wykeham Myers and the Government of Formosa

We received on Friday a communication in Japanese with a translation attached. The translation is as follows To the Editor of the Si,—Will you kindly to make in public the following few lines in your column with the reference to the article on For-moss of your issue on 23rd October, The account of the interview with Dr, Wykeham Myers_ which you published in' North-China Herald on 23rd ultimo under heading of "Japanese in Formosa" is mostly the baseless report on the affairs in this island, and among all, ho has already been dismissed from his position on Sist May of this yest, although he has decidedly declared that' ho is atill the adviser to the Inspbrial Jepanese Govern.

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