To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuma Dany News."
Sin,—Readers of that excellent journal "The London and China Express" will probably have noticed in the issue of Bist March to hand by last mail, a remarkable and by no means favourable review of the S. D. K. Report for 1904, which is characterised as "distinctly anti-Japanese." Whereas, of course, Society like that of the 8. D. K. should no political bias whatever, either for or against either of the contending nations. Nor had the Report as issued by the 8. D. K.. That honourable gentloman, the Russian Consul-General in Shanghai, would find nothing in the Report which might offend his patriotic sensibilities. And on the other hand, that honourable gentleman, the Japanese Consul-General in Shanghai, knowing all the Report was to contain, forthwith became a member of the Society, and took partin the anonol meeting. Yet the editor of the "London and China Express" seems to have been justified in his som: what drastic review of what should been an instructive and unbiassed book For the copy on which he based his review contains "four photographs of the execution of three Coreans, apparently Russian spies," which are Inbelled Corean Crucifixions, and have been selected to... create an anti-Japanese bias" to the Report. Needless to say that worthy editor did not have before him the 8. D. K. Report as it was issued by the Society, containing in place of "Corean Crucifixions" portraits of the ops Moule and Graves, Treaty Commi sioner, and H. E. Chen Fu, Viceroy of Nanking, with a full report of the Annual Meeting, and the able speech of Mfr. M. Odagiri upon the relations. of Japan to the new educational movement in China, ending with his reason for joining the Society, being "because its aim milar to that of Japan" in the eduextional movement. It is evident 2
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