the Editor of the "Nonrm-Cuina DAty News"
'Sim—While one is mostly in Jagreement with your excellent lead~ ing article of Thursday last, it is jeult to accept the concluding lines of your article. You say.a+-The order seems to be the educt' of Whitehall's ignorance, of focal conditions, It certainly does rot help the British Consulate in its Campaign for the more complete fistration of British subjects."
Tt will take a lot to convince the average Briton im the street that the order is not the outcome of representations originating in Shang-"thai, where that "ignorance of local
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.