To the Editor of the NontH-Caixa Dairy News."
Sit,—Xt the present time the Chapel district is supposed to be strict martial law. Even people residing in this district are not allowed to proceed to their of the Magazines, and what is going to happen when '2 horde of coolies who ate most likely to have been ignorant farmers impressed by the tary, attempt to handle the dynamite, urged on by soldiers with leaded riftes. Do not the shipping companies realize that the distances from the Magazine to the centre of the channel is under 500 yard: and that should an explosion take place the whole of the river bed would be completely changed, causing the whole of the shipping to held up for an indefinite period? This would be the financial ruin for this Port for many a long day to come and it behoves the officials to take the necessary precautions to the Magazines against any attempt to interfere with the conten!
Tam, ete, anghai, Sept. 7, 1924. is not true that a bridge was blown up. Only two sleepers and a rail were displaced. But this does affect the force of "Shipping's" letter—Ed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.