To the Editor of the "Norts-Emma Day News.
S1n,—Your correspondent "Fairplay" wants to know if Dr. Morrison would write in the same glowing terms about China (as he did the other day in a letter to the paper be had served so long), if he had not now joined the Peking Government service.
I agree with "Fairplay" that there is a class of foreigners who can blow hot and cold at the same time and serve as weathercocks as long as they are paid for the service, but I do not think for ® moment that China's Foreign _Political Adviser belongs to this category. Has your correspondent forgotten the speech which the doctor delivered in London two or three years ago? Reuter then wired "Dr Morrison, speaking at the Authors' Club, dwelt on the marvellous vitality of China, where a greater measure of tranquillity and peace prevailed at present than for
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