To the Editor of the "Norts-Cama Darty News."
Sir,—I have read the letter that appeared on this subject in to-day's issue of your paper.
It is my habit to look first at the signature to a published letter and when I read "Falcon" I expected something keen or at least soaring; but I must say that the nom de plume might well have been "Job's Comforter" or "R.I.P."
Your correspondent opens with words that have " strangely familiar ring. Far be it from me discredit the knowledge the Police may have of the movements of criminals in the Settlement, and he must not strive to set that worthy body against my scheme which be describes, forsooth, as a waste of time. While Shanghai is in the Process of rebuilding that his
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