To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dainty News."
Sir,—With reference to 0.A.B.'s letter. of the 12th and a similar one in your issue of to-day, in both of which he presumes that insurance companies would refuse to pay compensation on the ground that the premises are of old construction, it may be that the local branches of the large insurance offices in Shanghai feel it to be a work of supererogation to reply through the columns of your paper.
I would inform your correspondent that any first class office, in Shanghai or any other place, would not hesitate to pay a claim on an old building in case of loss. A certain percentage, fixed by an assesser, would, however, be deducted in proportion to the age of the building. am, ete.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.