To The Editor of the "Nonta-CHixa Datty News.
Sim—In today's issue of your paper there in" an extraordinary Sereed from one Bruce Lockhart in which the following appear A sow stops. along the Pea Stauue Squre, the show place of it Romy ani wes find Vie femoral with the. august old eta Tudyitting, om hee throne Nolding the identalst one wonders how ste can wie and. sceptre in, either: hand. seine
there Ime! to"peveder her hose, which who powerless to lo" since both hands a However, this ided with a her dreae OF her torrential rains Tropleat sue afue, both her daughters inlaw and" geon-diughtersinlaw dot The effect the foregoing li duce on the average Englishman fand Englishwoman is one of i found disgust. Britons are accustomed to speak of the late Queen Victoria, of revered memory, Dated breath, and it is not a little surprising that you should suffer the columns of your paper to be di figured by such a coarse' effusion, which ix nothing Tess than a gratute, {ous insult to the memory of & great Yuler anyd to the people over: whom she voted, "A time there was wher the columns of the "North-China Daily News" were full of dignity and represented high standard of Journalism, but when such an ill mannered effusion can be permitted {o appear la your paper, you must indeed have fallen from your high Such things ave Hot an me festive to continued support of your Duper, and you must not be surprised'if British veadars decide that they have no further jistifeation for reading a paper that allows one! of the groutest British Sovereigns to be referred to in ribald terms.
Tam, ete, Di
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