If anything could open the eyes of the public to the wicked folly of the so-called boycott of Japanese goods, the disgraceful "stoppage" by' the "boycotters" of the despatch of a consignment of chloride of lime to Hankow should be successful in performing that operation, Two correspondents effectively draw attention to this brutal disregard of the needs of the flood victims in letters published elsewhere. It is only necessary to add that even worse than the flood is the appalling posbility of disease which it inevitably ies in its train, To hinder, in any way, provision for coping with this grave menace to human life is ity. Tt will be seen that efforts are being made through the columns of this journal to raise for the sufferers in these floods. Those efforts should have unfaltering support, both moral and material, But it may reasonably. be demanded that condign penalties should be inflicted on irresponsible People who, on the flimsy pretext serving' some vague political approved by no responsi member of the Government, deliberately prejudice the chances of limiting the already too extensive havoc wrought,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.