The Japanese convicted of man-facturing a liquor intended to be an imitation of "Johnnie Walker" whiskey may consider himself lucky to get off with 99 days' imprisonment and deportation. The danger of these imitations is not so much that residents of tke port, knowing decent malt liquor when they taste it and having a good idea of the price, will ever be deceived by such a concoction as the Woosung Road brand. If they are, the immed-jate advice to be given to them is to leave that form of drink severely alone. As stated, the others will not buy it, for your host in Shanghai will not offer his guest an inferior brand. It is by no means a case such as Disraeli described in the following words:—'An Englishman, incapable otherwise of 2 shabby action, will nevertheless order inferior claret at dinner, which is the only time at which a real gentleman drinks wine." He may still to-day do so with claret, but for his good name in this year of grace he will take no chances with his whiskey, and so Hongkew's best (or worst) makes no appeal to him. The danger is that the unscrupulous people running low taverns or even shebeens for the bedevilment of wayfarers will supply this vile stuff, thereby turning the drinker's world into an inferno. As a matter of fact the [man who makes that stuff and the man who supplies it should be made parties to whatever offence or crime results from its consumption.
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