Our Vancouver corresponilent sends us to-day another specimen of the gross misrepresentation te which the unfortunate people of Shanghai are exposed at the hands of some of their countrymen abroad.. Who Mr. Hollis H. Corey may be we do not' know. One hazards a guess that he came here on one of the round-the-world liners which used to drop in here with incon: venient frequency, that he disliked Teiaatir lis ili ines opecpes "nding seem acta any Jead one to suppose no better of MWe Ao Pah a Tu "Sic nas Tiana se of be paved In Shanghai it is safe to ray that that ele border is better off than the average coal ace et ate Hell ent later Cant of Inquiry, anxious to stop child ite el i clu Tie one ie Sue the industries founded on the ight kef the Woosung. (air) 0. protlt= some of those who "sen Wealth "from there Me Chineve. and Sspancee, coyle of our own collar, Well, the mills on the right bank of the Huangpu are all in Pootuns, Chinese property. As for mills owned by "people of our own race" ete. being more numerous than those owned by Chinese and Japanase, thi again ig utterly false. There a to-day, we believe, but three British mills and filatures in Shanghai and rey's active imagination would hardly find children at work. We have no exact statistics, but it is safe to assume that Chinese industrialists in the Shanghai aren exceed all other nationalities put! together in the number of hands. they: employ. Mr. Gorey's observa tions on the Public Gurdens avd the prophet Amos would interest one more, if the rest of hie letter did not show how badly informed: he is about Shanghai generally.
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