To the Editor of the "NorTH-CuINA Datty' News."
Sin—Your own correspondent at Kiating, in a letter published in your paper on the 10th instant, writes) [that "it makes one laugh, when one sees there Chinese owned vessels: coming into port under foreign flags such as... <Norwegian ete."
It is against Norwegian laws and Regulations to allow any vessel which is not bon fide Norwegi-n owned to sail under the Norwegian flag.
The numerous applications received by this Consulate-General from various quarters to grant Chinese-owned vessels a permit to sail tinder} the Norwegian flag have, therefore, unvariably been turned down, and I take it that it must be a mistake on [the part of your correspondent. when hho includes the Norwegian fag] Jamongst those used on Chinese-Jowned vessels, as no.report of such]
misuse has ever reached me. T shall Jemanating from a. strictly see-) misuse has ever reached me: rotarian pen. however, feel very much obliged shall Tu verse it is another matter. Poetle licence is too frequently abused, there being, in actual fact, '10 mote excuse for the splitting of on infinitive in verse than in prose, though the latitude allowed to one should be allowed to the other. The particular split for which I—admittedly rather high-handedly—apologized, T am of. the opinion could have been avoided without roy loss of meaning or scansio end {E was partly on that account and partly to disclaim any respon ibility for the split myself that I referred to the matter in the first your correspondent would report to me any case in which he finds that vessels owned by Chinese are flying) the Norwegian flag.
Tam, ete, Aatt, Consul-General for Norway.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.