Shanighai, Nov. 18. 1924. te HONG List pmActes To, the Editor of the "Nowrm-Camva Daty News."
Si—I remember seeing a paragraph in your paper a few days ago referring to the piracies perpetrated on the North-China Desk Hong. List. I had a visit on Saturday last from a canvasser for the China Traders' Diary, 1925, the manager for the East being of the same name as the person mention-cutting submitted to me for correction was clipped from the last edition of your Hong List and is, fon the face: of it, a flagrant piracy of same.
T need hardly say that the can-made a speedier exit than entrance to my office, and I trust iven a like reception may not be worth your while, while on the other hand it may, to bring action for infringement of copyright against the several imitators of the Hong List. Tt must be apparent, however, to the general public that the cutting up and part correction of last year's Hong List and the reprinting of same will produce a work of no value whatever to the business man.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.