The extract from "The Times" is as follows:— it that you have, in the above sentence, given voice to opinion held by many foreigners in China, and I would suggest that Some of your correspondents explain to those possessing the "Chinese mind" why it is that foreigners have 80 little respect for, and faith in, the integrity and character of their consular officials, To hint at the possible compulsion to unpleasant duty cannot be reconciled to the hint lof dishonesty, yet that is exactly what scores of Britons are trying to do,
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