Rather a curious incident in connexion with ordinary routine of newspaper-work is worth repeating. A few days ago we received an article, on the usual approval, which appeared to have been sent in by a foreigner. It was accompanied by a letter in faultless English, signed by a foreign name that we knew. The article itself was a translation or copy of thing called "The Liberty Gazette: A Philippical Dissertation of the Chinese Government's Suppression of the Student's Movement"—which, the writer said had been handed to him by a young Chinese and which he thought might interest us. It was not, in fact, very interesting, being merely a repetition of the sort of thing of which we have printed not a little, and it was returned. But now comes a friend of the supposed sender to say that the latter has been away from Shanghai for four years, and the signature, though cleverly done, was undoubtedly an imitation. Presumably, therefore, the whole thing was a trick by one of the students, suppressed or otherwise. But why the subterfuge? We have not been so unsympathetic with student aims that the writer need have hesitated to come direct. The} affair is a curious illustration of old instincts surviving in spite of modern education.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.