To the Editor of the "Nonra-Oniwa Datty News."
S1x,—I read with much interest your leader in to-day's paper, an and fe for some time the idea of writing' to you on this subject has been on my mind, but your correspondent "Briton" forestalled me.
1 trust, however, that there has bees' a hearty response to his suggestion, that all British employers here interview their employees, and that the laver allocate a portion of their monthly salaries to the War Loan, as, judging from wha: protes at home have repeatedly intimated, tthe country will need all the money it can lay hands on, to enable it to prosecute the war to successful termination, and it be-everybody, however humble, his share.
I am of the opinion that enough economy is not being practised here, and everybody who loves his country should see where he can curtail his expenditure, and assist the Government to the utmost extent pos-
Su,—As you have always shown sympathetic interest in the discussions on racial questions, I fool sure you will, therefore, not think 1 am unnecessarily labouring the subject if I ask to be permitted to present the case for the so-called British Kurasians in China by one who has just returned from England.
My attention was called to a let-wer appearing in your paper of the 21st instant on the subject of "Income Tax in China" and I observed that in commenting upon it, you questioned the accuracy of the correspondent's information regarding the disability of Eurasians from holding Commissions in the English Army. I now beg to state my own experience with the War Office. I left Peking st the earlier part of the war, and at my own expense travelled to England to offer myself for service at the front. Upon my arrival in England I immediately presented myself at the War Office, armed with a personal letter of introduction to one of the higher officials there, to apply for a Commission. I left my letter at the Office, and the next day I received communication from the War Office desiring me to present myself there together with a written record of my experiences. Upon of which was
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