The " Peking Daily News," in special article recently appearing in its columns, raises a point in regard to which foreigners are frequently in doubt. With the advent of republican government, all the old honorific titles have been done
cellency" applied indivi: away with and the ubiquitous Grand Councillor or minor oieal in @ public office, no longer meets the ease. The Chinese take exception as a rule to the practice common in foreign newspapers, of referring to important personages by their names pure and simple, and point out that we always give As-quite his "Mr." and Edward Grey his "Sir and that equal courtesy should be accorded to their prototypes in China, The justice of the Chinese contention is undenble, and the assurance can be given to the "Peking Daily News" thet the omission of titles when reference is made to Chinese is due certainly not to lack of courtesy nor to any idea that the Chinese are not equally entitled with foreigners to the usual prefixes.
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