To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cuiwa Danby News."
Sig—Your paper, as the organ of the British community, should say something really good to your hoople instead of endorsing such filly opinion as the Hongkong meeting to blockade Canton.
Being a Cantonese, I tell you frankly, that warships and guns fare not the best weapon to make fear, but on the other hand to harden the ill-feeling against you.
Many of the buyers of the two large department stores and Sun Sanas well are my intimate friends, They informed me straightly that they have joined together not to, buy anything British, even to sten in the doors of British firms, that can be proved by inquiries from your people I dare say it is absolutely a fact.
In such @ condition as now the deep cut relation and. friendship between these two big nations, should require something to soften and smoothen 3g K€ th but on the contrary you Jef Apgisuch as your insisting on judicial inquiry and still worst bioekad and war on) Canton locally. What a pity!
Proper treatment and trade (as your article says the other day) cannot be gai red by force but by sympathy.
'How many of the Chinese people are behind the principle of Sun Yat-sen (Kuomintang), innumer-obit, everywhere and' anywhere, home and abroad. Don't be so silly 3 thinking of driving them out and there will be nothing. What about Yuan Shih-kai re last. Wilhem I, same thing to him finally.
In conclusion I beg to quote Chinese saying: LUG MABEL
Tam, ete,
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