To the Editor of the "Norru-Cunwa Dany News"
Siy—In your teste of this morning there Is an account of the inaugural Meeting of the Shanghai Shareholders Protection. Association and 1 cannot let Mr, Hicxtine's concluding remarks, reported therein, pass without com-
Mr, Hrexuine is reported to have said "We have tried to get Messrs. Wattle and Burkill to meet us at found. table and. they won't meet us all This 1s emphatically not the case. Firstly, I am "not aware that any request for a Conference haa ever been made to ether of the two Sms im question-and-secondly 1 personally have met Mr. Hrextme on two occastons during recent monthe and had lengthy conversations with him in the resehce of three or more other people who-wil, T am sure, if necessary, 'Vouch for what took place and-whether or no my altitude' was obstructive.
Shanghai, Mar, 18,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.