To the Editor of the "NonrH-Cuixa Datty News."
Sm,—I have just received a booklet which is apparently from an amalgamation of Chinese publishers? associations whose headquarters are at 98-Ping. Poo Lee, Thibet Road, entitled "Our Views on the. proposed Printed Matter By-Law." the necessity for the foreigners and the great majority of reputable Chinese to have the agitators understand that we are not prepared to let the Settlements of [Shanghai become as anarchical and chaotic as the other parts of China, Primum vivere delude philosophori..
Therefore it ism strict duty for all the ratepayers, even of those who supported the views of Mr. Bruce Lockhart and for the latter himself to attend in the mass the necting on Tuesday and vote un-Jacimously in favour of the proposed by-laws.
We may be confident. in the Shanghai Municipal Couneil_ to Jenforee the new regulations with circumspection and tact, As you suid to-day in your leader, the duty of a Government is to govern and we must support heartily the body of competent and reliable Councillors who have taken, to the only benefit of the commnsity, the heavy ibility for the management, snd order, of our great ALP,
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