To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cauna Datty New!
Sin,—Is it not time that we heard the last of the grounding of the Loongwo and the chivalry of the rea? Ill-natured attacks on the Chinese, printed by English newspapers, are doing England far more harm than all the Bolshevik pro-that] Pag not wrecked at at sea, but ran ashore in the Yangtze. This constantly happens to vessels and they often remain ashore for months. It is an annoying experience, but not an alarming one. In the case of the Loongwo there may possibly have been some slight danger; but I hardly think that her Passengers will thank your post for describing them as in a state of silent terror, even though they are pictured as'bearing up in their agony with the fortitude of Casa~ bianca on the burning deck. In one point they seem to have been lucky: for we learn that "A chill was on the wave." At midsummer on the Yangtze this must have been singularly welcome:
The one lesson to be drawn from the incident is how much bitterness has been aroused by recent happenings. To increase this bitter= ness will do no good to anybody. Tam, ete, Shanghai, Sept.,8 1925.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.