To the Editor of the Nontu-CHixa Datty News"
Sit—The Shanghai Branch of the British Chamber of Commerce and of the China Association recently, on their own invitation, elected to tell the world that they dissociated themselves from certain expressed by you in your issue of September i2 under the title of "H. B. Minister and Shanghai." As such an action, however, will hardly succeed in deterring the "Old Lady of the Bund" from the habit—no doubt unpleasant to many—of using plain, but charitable, language whenever occasion demands it, irrespective of personage concerned, may I ask if these Associations will also continue to favour your read gratuitously with notices of their is now imperative and should not prove exhausting for the writer that is, if they continued to restrict their joint composition to bare pronouncement, without substantiating or clogging it with any such gross alloy as reasons, Indeed, no tactful objection could ever be raised in this respect, since their declarations, being free gifts, should be accepted with a grateful Tam, ete.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.