To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuina Datty News."
Sim,—My attention has just been drawn to your leader of the 18th Boxer Indemnity, and your reference to the idea which I originated that the money should be used complete the Canton-Hankow Rai and that there should be a first! charge on its revenues for educa. tional purposes, by which means the Boxer Indemnity would serve a double role and would stretch very, much farther than if confined to the purposes first designed.
'You very kindly comment that "ideally the scheme is an excellent one. Practically it suffers from obvious drawbacks." This hardly' accords with your opinion expressed in the same columns in September when you stated that the "the dual merit of being exceedingly simple and thoroughly. practical: simple in that it_ would
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