No more appropriate suggestion could have been made than came fiom Mr. Brodie Clarke yesterday. et a luncheon of the Committee of St, Andrew's Society. He expressed the hope that Mr. E. P, Mackay, in whose honour the function was held, Would when he got Home tell the wiseacres there what the positi in China really was, Goubt that ito-day the.plai varnished truth is needed at Home more than at almost any time in the past, for not only have Chinese spokesmen succeeded in effecting some very fine camouflage, but numerous writers with more imagitation about them than pre-Gineness: have, whether consciovely Soa saa Snead have emo teh Gang rae obstacles which offici Placed will well stand recounting to-day.
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