The Archive · 1922

Shades of Chaucer

One who signs himself "Ras," and who claims to have done various things in Shanghai from driving in a fire truck to "belting a couple over the tapes" at cricket, publishes in the "North China Star" (Tientsin) an Open Letter to Shanghai." It seems to refer principally to the failure of Shanghai to send an Interport cricket XI to Tientsin subsequent to the match of 1990, and as an example of the style which the writer affects the

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account