The Archive · 1928

A Shanghai Myth

Under, the above heading the following paragraph appeared in cent issue of the "Bforning Pos Last _month 1 referred, with gi! aayeenuon, to protest nade iuliom to @ protest shade bya leit fu Shana that eae See Sets Pee aay reded 9 Iter deed nat UaetSatag, tes Nae Geant Re Ast acting the: ces seat, tant ation, Sounest ride a categ rach notice vee the pages in the 2 Shanghst rhe Sinner be 'G: Penree, Ax Brooks: Strnts "tfectaaliy" isposes of the Edward "Pearce, Br. Brooke-Smith and -Mr, Mackay, have quite recently "been appointed as a Committee to keep a lookout for reports about -Chnia and to follow-up every misstatement with 'a prompt correction. By subscribing to a press-cutting agency they are able to cover a wide field and will undoubtedly don great and much needed work. Who knows but that they may kill the apparently unkillable slander mentioned by the "Morning Post?" Of this it will be recalled that in September, 1925, the Council wrote officially "to the United States Consul-General in answer toa question he had_been asked to put by an Anierican news. paper, that the most careful search of all records had failed to find any substantiation the story. Yet again and again it has reappeared. The Chinese official tioned by the "Morning Post" is more considerate than some: he only says he "has been told" the notice appeared. We know of at ers who have gone from here to tell audiences abroad that their own eyes had seen a notice which has never existed,

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