To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Dairy News.'?
Siz,—I hope your correspondent at Lungchow, Kuangsi, writes only from' hearsay regarding the more ghastly happenings which he reports in his correspondence appearing in your issue to-day. I do not, however, question his accuracy, because I have no information at the moment. The brute in all of us, East and West alike, shows its teeth whenever there is a break in the chain of restraints imposed on us by what is called "our social But if your correspondent is to be understood as referring to conditions throughout Kuangsi, I must point out that the province exceeds both England and Wales by 18,000 square miles in area; and its population is larger than that of either Scotland or Ireland by more than 1,000,000 souls. It is mountainous; and travelling is not easy, as means of communication are' quite primitive. His, indeed, would be an_ exceptional mind to know what is happening in all Kuangsi.
I am, ete., Shanghai, Feb. 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.