To the Editor of the "Nonta-Coma Darty News."
It comes to this. If you are or American, oF German, and your "place within the ig of the Act" is entirely outside fiction of the Municipal the Municipal Police will be turned loose on you you must But if your lite place Spanish name, if instard of being on the outskirts you conduct your operations in the very heart of the Settloment, if instead of making people hu you up you go where they most will Gougeogate, and if (dare I say it?) you not amenable to one of the juris: Gio: ione named above, but are summoned befor other court, or have your Chinese chen! tried before another assessor—why th no need to flaunt the police; you your side, They will protect you in Yaking the cream' from six daya of the year, provided you will abstain from im milk of the other 359. More need not refer to what has be by the Pross itself as the same only a fair comment upon the two correspondence referred to above, and 1 will only deal with what has been ned by Mr. Hanson and th Rererend " True Spaniard."
Aboat what the Rev.
"Trae Spat ard" has published T ill say th he makes an astound confusion between "nuturalisation" and "protec loa." I tu is qui @ useless for me here to psi t ow the difference between us uraligs and ' protection everybody who has bit of commonsense, understands it.
The law quote! by the Reveren "True Spriiaed" (apart from the fact] that some of same i. @. Ley do Nov. Reo"p. hi ed) refers only solely to natural tion and no: to rote which is regulared by al Reglamento para ejercicio de la protection consular."
Drawing thi of distinction bet woon ''naturalist a" and "protec:
you will s" that it is quite ight that the two certificates must nce as one is for those proved (justificado) th it natio ality the other four those who have ined (obtenide) only the protection, own regulations, and keeping you in the limit of the law. No. I made mistake, That is not what you will find, not in Shanghai. We had our breath taken away a year and more ago, when the efforts of the police were crowned witl cooss wud the owner of that resort well outside the Western istrict was condemned in absentia, accident of the Senior ho Senior And to say that should be quil for mo, because us the correspon: the Reverend "True Spsninrd' based on naturalist: on" there nothing left of it.
But there some details wi "True Spaniard points out that the feo he paid for his certifizato is $0.84 while the fee certificate of proaction t from the fact that congeatulebions—but we, haven't recovered our breath. Now Tt sunset) for a new Municipal Council to th the community with the loss of what goos on within the racing enclosure, which hus not been suppresse: l in any country, to secure the toleration of lie, unrestrained gambling, which is tolerated in few of the cow tries that most of us come from, which is by us thrown in the face of the Chinese as one of their besetting Tam, etc. other Spaniards f-r their nationality, apart from this fret I dea he mot. that all the fees collected by the rious Coniulates are collected on a Consular tariff or seal lo of duly approved by their respec: tive Goveromsnta? If hi had taken the trouble to investigat 0 matter (as; that Roman Catholic d rity of which he professes to be a obliged him to do before throwing an open and groundless accusation against people of his own kin) he would have found 2ist May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.