From time to time the foreign resident in China has been astonished by "the curious interpretation placed on news from this part of the world. Frequently "the" interpretation Justifed but the material on which works differs widely from the realities as seen by those on the spot. In the early part of this month the excitement over events in Hongkew was sufficiently disturbing to Shanghailanders but apparently certain purveyors of news considered that, it required some embroidery to render it suitable for the London evening papers. Thus a correspandcent in England writing on Oct, 3 to a friend in Shanghai says:
To-day's "Evening Standard" again had very: alarming. Cull page reports the effect that arrangements have been made to evacuate all Europeans from China, but when I came to read the "account found in very. small print that this was a precautionary: Provision referring to the Yangtze Ports, to be adopted in case of emer= ency. 'This is another' instance the sensational extravagance. of the popular press which at the same time fe'very annoying and irritating. I re-lise that conditions are. exicemely Strained at the present time. AM ths must be causing you a great deal of, is evident that not only the Evening Standard" was at fault for this office itself received from an esteemed correspondent a series of cuttings and extracts in the normal course of business to which a covering letter was attached with the following observations:
I am sending these cuttings Siberia, but Tam very: doubtful as't0]
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.