To the Editor of the "Nonru-Carsa Darty News."
Ste,—Surely NewYork and London donot xeeand fail to appreciate the issues involved in the illegal arrest of a Chinese in the foreign settlement of S'anghai. It is not zeal for a technical nicety nor anxiety to ave an unknown Chinese from inhuman ment, but it is few of its effect on all China, both Ports and Interior, that stirs the ery Privilege The technical illegalities are not a light mutter, but the seriousness of the affair consists in the time of sts oceurrencs and the author of it. While the M.ncha is seemingly funking and begoing " Chinese slave, the wiliest of mankind,' to coax the we id to be pitiful, that stave has rebuked his master for such cringing obsequiousness and has smacked Europe in the face. The Oriental knows that East and West hav -heen'given to understand that he and his master are supreme still even in Shanghai. The arrest was intended to strike terror into all Chinese hearts. Chinese now know that the Settlement affords no o'ection and will, while living with igners, make terms with the bold Wenkness on our part fosters and 18 Chinese duplicity and trimming.
as usured on good authority that the nese clerks in a Port Custms Office, while receiving their pay from the Inspec: for, were taking their instructions from the Provincial capital, Tt will be a bad day when our Chinese neighbours cease to trust our willingness to defend our rights. If it is true that Lord Salisbury refuses to maintain the rights of Shanghai, then let Shanghai oust every Chinese nightly from its bounds and let the spade be brought into use in preparation for the coming siege.
An American writer, supposing that the decadence of England' has set in, expects that the U.S. will succeed to the supremacy on the sexs. It is more likely that both "Teuto us outside Germany' will ultimately march the Man with the Mailed Fist. Armenia and China call for a stout heart and a stre arm somewhere. If the Sultan and his satraps had been punished, Tuan, Tung Ca. might have been a little concerned for the consequences of failure, but the Turkey precedent assured them of immunity from all harm.
We all regret supineness at the coup d'état in the autumn of 1898. We may yet regret being too busy to attend to this insignificant coup in December, 1900.
Iam, ete., Tue Suave or Sin Honey Paxkes.
2nd January.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.