To the Editor of the week some ut!
Shanghai papers have engaged in a wordy: warfare about the Vi Tob Li While people are entitled to their n that undue importance ha ssiven to the incident, it ix well one of the: re drifting.
There has never been a peried so full of events in which the f eigner hax come off second best (if alive) as that which hax elapsed the Washington Conference, because he hur in each ease: been the wrong but because of breaches of treaty rights which have not been checked by the people whose business it ix to guarantee the observance of such trouties and the rights they confer, This is supposed tu be a civilized! country and under no civilized uxaze may anyone take the law into his own hands: if he hax a grievances, Tet him by all meane take legal steps against an offender, if he has not, let him keep quiet or take the eon: sequences.
Tam, ete.
Shanghai, May 9. 1924.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.