To the Editor of the "Norta-Caixa Dairy News,"
Siz,—Since my return to England in the spring of last year I have on a large number of occasions met ratepayers and residents of Shanghai and found them under the impression that I loft my post of my own choice, or anyway for my own advancement.
I am unwilling that the community amongst whom I worked for 20 years should be under this impression.
The facts are that I was, while still in the Balkans, easly in 1919, informed that my agreement would not be renewed, and offered a sum in excess of the superannuation money to which I was entitled condition ally upon my resigning. I was further told that the Council were acting on the petition of my ex-colleagues, the heads of the Municipal Departments.
I have asked, as a mere matter of cricket, to see this document, or that it be published, so that I might know with what I was charged, but this request has not been granted.
Being quite without resources other than my military gratuity I was obliged to accept and I am now a clerk in the City of London, which is what I was when I began life.
Personal explanations are not 0 my taste but, on the grounds that this is a matter of public record, ask for space in your columns.
I am, ete., W. E. Leveson, Sometime Secretary to the Shanghai Municipal Council.
10, St. James' Court, Buckingham Gate,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.