Was it not your practice to call for a whisky and soda immediately you entered the office?—It was of. I probably had two or three drinks during an afternoon, Not four or'five?—No. places practically every ynt?—Perhaps four nights a week, after finishing work, suggest that you neglected your office duties and failed to Keep proper hours because you were at these places when you should have been in the office?
Not at all, I never went to any. of them until after midnight, and the staff knew where I was to be found if wanted.
You were spoken to about it and attempted to justify yourself saying that you were able to get business in this way?—Not that T recall, Sopher did write telling me he thought I spent too much time at the Del Monte, Would you call yourself 9 frequenter of these " places?—I went pretty often, but only when T had finished work and went somewhere for relaxation, What were your average monthly ills from all of these places? $400 or $500. Oceusionally may get let in for $150 or $200.
Would you call them respect al places?—Well, that is rather severe question. They advert very heavily.
Aren't they about on a par with ithe dance halls of the Middle West during the mining days?—I never new anything about them, The Question of Editorials.
Witness denied that when under the influence of liquor he had culled into his office Jabin Hsu, a member of the staff and "a high class young. man," to discuss Chinese politics with' him until three or four in the. morning. He had had frequent discussions with Mr. Hsu, who was very. well informed on these matters, and who was just as keen on discussing. them as he was. Mr. Webb further denied that, on some of these ocean sions, he had given Hsu assignments to Peking and other places, and next morning forgot all about the assignment and when spoken to cancelled them.
Isn't it a fact that the only:
rial work you did for the China Press" was done with a pair of seissors?—No. I was responsible for the policy of the paper, and it proved a success. The policy of the previous editor had caused trouble and failure, The "China Press" was practically the only Shanghai paper without local editorials?—We had editorials, but avoided subjects likely to cause trouble in a mixed community such as that of Shanghai, If anybody attacked America, or American institutions, or misrepresented American policy, I was ready to take up the cudgels, the paper being, ostensibly, an American paper.
Was there one local editorial a week?—Oh yes.
Written by you?—Qcegsionally by
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