The Archive · 1934

A Proverb Recalled

To the Editor of the "Nonm-Cunwa Dany News"

Sm—It Mr. R. de Ruffé thinks, he always does, judging from the letters ne nas been in the habit. writing to the public press, that China is suen a rotten country, and that we Chinese are such a and venomous people, for the life of me T simply cannot understand country (where by the nevertheless seen At stay for so. many years) for his riy homeland where wre no corrupt ministers and there Mr. R. de Ruifé at the back of his mind would have all of us believe that the newspaper correspondents who recently gave us such detailed information about Paris scandals are "unscrupulous propagandists(" and {hat their reports are-all "bietant es T would also remaind Mr. R, de Ruffé of the proverb about" a man a glass-house throwing stones at others.

Ok Shanghai June 28.

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

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