To the Editor of the Norra-Caixa Datty News."
.—'Englishman" is asking me through the columns of your esteemed paper whose d.. d business the affairs of England really do concern?
will tell him with a few words. Nobody (as far as talking is concerned) but the duly elected M.Ps., from whose ranks our present Government were duly chosen.
I take it that "Englishman" is a permanent China resident, and as such he has no vote. That he has the interests of his country at heart is only as it should be, so have most of us, but my contention is, that too many cooks spoil the pie and that when it comes to "Great Questions," we would serve our country better by leaving it to our Government to carry on.
Before the war a Ngval Holiday was suggested. The Germans did not want one. They have got it now.
What I would suggest now_ is that we have a "Newspaper Holiday" in Great Britain, her Dominions and Colonies on leaders or correspondence only as far as "going for the Government is concerned."
As far as we are concerned out here we could discuss far more interesting problems in the local press. I will give you a few:—How to be happy though married.
The effects of the "Shaw Case""
on British Prestige.
The taking over by the Chinese of. the Russian Concessions.
Fleeting a President of the Republic of Shanghai.
I am, ete., Ex-Orricer. Pangku, North China, Sept. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.