No Tue kind of argument which one wearies of reiterating in formal editorial style, partly' because so little impression' seems to be made by studied! argument and partly because one's means of, expression are exhausted, is often put with freshing vigour and clarity in off-hand conversations or in casual personal letters. There is nothing new to be said on the subject of extraterritoriality and no one connected with this jour-_ nal could possibly think of a new' way of restating old arguments. But the few lines quoted below, from a personal letter written in Nanking and received here do} tell the old story so pointedly in unadorned colloquial that! amplification or embellishment would serve no purpose. This! Personal letter, written in Nanking on Saturday. remarks among other things "As you say, I just came!
here in time for trouble and natives are very scared of what may be in store for them—and us! I would like to have had some of those people who!
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