To the Eiitor of the antu-Catxa Darty News.
Sm,—The voyage to Shanzhai must hare seriously deranged the mnemonic apparatus of your Fuochow correspondent, whose notes appear in your issue of the Ist inst, Distance seems t" have lent—not enchant. ment—hut distortion to his view of the people from whom he fled in such hot haste and dread alarm. Certainly we who have remained behind know nothing of the change of attitude and feeling of which he speaks, Nosurgingcrowdsarebrexthing out dire (threatenings of insult and rudeness as On the eon: land to pres-rye the peace of the neighbourhood.
for the rumours ut knife-making to which your correspe: enquiries were m: by H.BM.'s and others and no fours report found. The fact that ponent too easily gave fence to the idle tales which are always being concocted at such times as these, and 1, for one, greatly regret that his notes were allowed to appear in your columns, not relegated to thir proper place—the Editorial waste paper basket.
Tam, ete., Foochow, 6th August.
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