Peace was accordingly declared. North China breathed freely. Manchuria was spared the letting loose of hell. And the public gratitude to the brave men, who had risked life as well as reputation, was voiced by the aforesaid newspaper, which uses both war and peace as excuses for belabouring Chang Tso-lin. The courage, perseverance and wisdom of our two Mukden comrades in performing a great act of service to humanity only provoked the scorn of one who sits'in daily judgement on the land of his adoption. How can the conduct of such a paper advance the cause of "comity between nations??? The British business community of Mukden is so annoyed at the prejudiced attitude of this newspaper that steps are likely to be taken to test the legality of the editor's actions, under the law of extraterritoriality.
The pity is that the press campaign against. Chatg Tso-lin is so futile and unnecessary. The plain facts of the Manchu situation are sufficiently grave, when stated without bias. Constant vituperation of the "ex-bandit" by "foreign busybodies" in Tientsin can only do harm by aggravating a quarrel, serious enough as if is,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.