To the Editor of the "Nontn-Cxiwa Dairy News."
Sig-—I at least am one British subject who can in no way endorse the demand made by the meeting in Hongkong for a blockade of Canton, Has the moral lesson of the Great War been lost so soon? Has Peking proved so amenable to reasons and explanations offered her lately as to make you feel confident that she would accept one as to such a blockade? How do you guarantee that 90 per cent. of the Cantonese would welcome "being blockaded? Would it be justifiable to commit the taxpayers at home to even the possibilities of a war against their known will in the matter? Ion't isolation of Great Britain the very thing that all the forees of disorder in China are striving for? Your whole article is to me stark midsummer madness. I wonder if you sufficiently realize that the Chinese speak of your paper as the Official Voice of the British and what a responsibility it involves. may be alone in protesting against the suggestion that all British are favour of the blockade, but I felt the protest should be made. I realize fully the provocation, and the responsibility the Chinese take in making the provocation but war is no way out:
Tam, ete, Gnunerr E, Peer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.