'To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuana. Datty News'
Smm,—Judging from the contents snd number of the letters that have rely appeared in your newspaper} about the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company they seem at present to -be in water hot enough in these sultry days. However, when tone has to remain helplessly. for quite. an uncertain space of time often looking at the telephone that has-come to refuse to work, one is induced to write you, Sit; and make a timely addition to the cor-
From my experience it can now bbe said that the categorical answer: our 'Telephone Company give to complaints of out-of-order descrip~ tion is that they will fix the lines up as soon as possible"—a hateful adverbial phrase which, if analyzed, means really nothing' satisfactory to the parties addressed.
The other day again I called at the Telephone Company, where a. request of mine was made all in vain as usual to send a mechanic fat once in order to put an office line right. A Chinese clerk, with whom T talked there, showed me of. the millions. Our govern: ts] incidentally a stack of letters yet andr politicians could see for the unattended to from different sub-elves. with their own observers, scribers, but containing the same that facts of justice and right to sort of application, the people en masse preceded their To find in the West a put surrender and then, despite all the utility concern which was run after volumes of propaganda preached by the unbusinesslike manner above the: selfiah few, despite all the lecture mentioned would prove just as ing' tours of the party protagonists: hard as to locate a money exchange abroad) amongst the uninformed shop under foreign management voters of the friendly Powers, nothin the giddy town of Shanghai, ing could prevent the great body Tam, ete, of the Chinese people from register-WATT AND HEAR, ing their approval and friendliness
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.