Bitter experience has shown that, more often than not, when a news paper sets itself out to agitate for the righting of a wrong, the remed; sought for has been so long delayed that the evil it was sought to mend has become past history. It is, consequently, with more than usual pleasure that we print in another place a telegram showing that the War Office has taken steps to mitigate the conditions under which British military officers were forced to stay in Shanghai without sufficient money to enable them to meet the ordinary demands of the day on their personal finances..It must not be forgotten that arrangements were made from Hongkong, soon after the publication of the article, to surmount the difficulties which were then shown to exist, but the telegram we print to-day proves that even the War Office was stirred
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