To the Editor of the "Norru-Omixa Dany News."
Sin,—In these troublous times nobody cares to be worried with a mass of instructions as to what to do or what not to do in certain eventualities, but at the sara time there should not be any likelihood of necessary instructions being misunderstood.
Recently all householders received a printed notice from the Adjutant of the S.V.C. specifying the Refuge Post io which each should proceed in case of necessity. We are also told that eight strokes on the fireball and four guns is the signal for the Volunteers to turn out and ten strokes the signal for the General Service Ca.
What I wish to ask is whether, there being a disturbance say down Hongkew, larger than the police could cope with, and it was found necessary to call out the Volunteers, does it follow that we are to immediately shut-up our houses all over the Settlenients znd outside ro: l get the women and children to our district
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.