May 7. j will continue to try, to utter the interests of the Chinese people as a whole, If it is considered that the bounds of fair comment a stepped there is the British court, in lotion can be taken It is greatly to be regretted that Mr. A. C. Clear has found: himself compelled to resign n the post of engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, his or any other British: institution, with the certainty of full justice being done.
It is to be emphasized that, prior to the enter ing of the ban, no complaint had ever heel made to any member of tins paper either in writing or word, of any article to whicl wag taken, The report igners. As ix well known the resignation is not a volun-one, except in so far as Mr.
did not think it advisable the general interests of the line to press ts; and the pity of it is that the dispute pears to have arisen over a had ne-
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