To the Editor of the ""Nomts-Cuma Datty News."
Sm,—if no suitable plan for catching these gentry has yet been devised, I should like to suggest a method by which the police may have s chance of identifying the culprits, In most cases, resistance on the part of the Chinese employees is never resorted to, and the raiders quietly escape with their booty. Now if an electric gong or bell European descent: ing to answer in the affirmative, I was immediately told that I am not eligible for a Commission. No questions were asked as to my qualifications or experience, so that it was very evident that was disqualified on account of my mixed birth. At the time of my departure from Peking, I was not particularly keen about obtaining a Commission, and would have been fully prepared to serve in the ranks as other better fellows than myself have done, but T did not feel justified in doing so
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