It has been suggested that the Hongkong Government is shielding itself behind the Imperial Government in the sense that it admits that. some injustice has been done, for which however the Imperial Government is to blame. The Hongkong Government shields itself behind nobody. It has published a plain statement of facts and it now adds the expression of its opinion that, so fav from there being any question of blame, the policy adopted although distasteful to a few individuals was manifestly right and in the interests of the Empire as a whole.
What would Mr. Moller and Mr. Burkill have? Their ships did not even belong to an old-established line, but_were acquir-edi after the outbreak of war, and why should they, secure from the perils of the war in far-off Shanghai, be chosen out from all other British ship-owners to reap the results of others' sacrifices?
I am, etc., A. G. M. Frercner.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, Sept. 6, 1923.
ANGLO-SAXON, To the Editor of the "Norrh-Catra Darty News."
Sir,—The " Anglo - Saxon Wherze!"? Is it not high time fo drop thig erroneous and narrowly selfish nomenclature as. representing the English-speaking peoples of this earth? I notice with regret that Capt. Bruce, Premier of Australia, also uses it; but probably his education was neglected in that respect. Lord Birkenhead once used the same phrase. not. so long ago probably from the same cause the Anglo-Saxon. English -speaking peoples of the world," but he was
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