To the Editor of the "Nortu-Casa Daly New:
S1n,—On the 10th of April you published under the-above heading a translation of the Impecial edicts issued in accordance with Article X of the preliminary frosty of Peace." The edicts are now being pastel in this part of China for the information of the Chinese public, and I have to-day received from the officials several capi 8 pasted on bamboo frames, to be hung up, suppes, on mission premi-es, During the past three weeks T have read and re-rexd the document in its translated form as published by yourself, and side by side with it I have been studying the Blue Books relating to the troubles of last year and comparing both with the history of the Chinese riots of 1891* and the Blue Books of that period. The comparison is highly instructive and I strongly recommend it to all who desire to understand the present state of affine, and the prospects of our future relations with the Chinese Government on. the one hand, and the Chinese people on the other. For myself, the more I study the whole question, the more feel it to be a matter for profound regret that the present edicts have ever been allowed to sve the light, In my opinion, and T feel very sure I shall not stand alone in this opinion, their publiestion and widespread dissemination in China must cly immeasurable harm to the cause that we all have at heart, viz., the establishment of right relations between the Chinese people and ourselves, and I should like to be allowed in your columns to give some reasons for sw thinking, To begin with, "then, the leading of these edicts is falsehood and unblushing misrepresentation of facts from one end to the other. The value of an edict—it neod only have been a couched in must cautious s—stating truly the facts as they are, and publishing these facts throughout. the length and breadth of China, would have Veen inestimable. In this way it wou'd have been possible to make clear to the! comprehension of the wuss of the people what hus rely happened, what caused the conflict between China on the one han: a, and the whole Western world together with Japan, on the other, with such disastrous result to the Csinese nation as well as to foreigners, and what steps need to be taken to prevent the recurrence of the miserable anti foreign disturbances future. There are myriad China understand, and would even sympathise with, the aim of such an edict. "They wonkl rejoice to know that their Emperor was clean-handed, even in the judgment of the allied Western armies, and that he hid done nothing to Amti-Foreign Riots in China 1891.
sth-China Heralil" Office, Shane. hai.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.