To the Editor of the "Nontn-Carsa Dany News."
Sm,—During the dispute between ti Consular Body and the Municipal Council there has been so much argumentum ad hominem and so much appeal to prejudice that we have been in danger of losing sight of the real issues involved. Now that the safety-valve of a public meeting has been called into use and has done its valuable ye may look dispassionately at the situation. During 1898 an arrangement was made between the Consular Body and the Municipal Council by which all pected cases of requisition from the Chinese authorities should be first tried in the Mixed Court of the International Settlement in the presence of an Assessor. I see no evidence in the
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