To the Editor of the "NomrH-CHixa Datty News, Sin—I notice in the article 29 she floods in the north, which appears jin this morning's issue, that mention is made of the "Haikwans=0" dyke at Tientsin. This name has nothing to do. with" Haikwa Jor Maritime Customs; the characters famous temple on the site of "what iwas once known as the West JArsenal. It was there that the [Treaty of 1858 was signed.
Here in Shanghai foreigners =aake imilar mistake.. We speak of vit imagine shat the name has_sonte connexion "vith the "Long" Rivers while, as a matter of fact, the characters axe HB} Ht BP. Yang-shi-p'u, reas sity esi of Pople? the bank being that particular dittrict on the Huangpu known by. that name.
There ar2 many such mistakes; but they ave excusable in foreign Jers. Ate> all, what of 1am, ete, Zavoe.
Shangzsi, Joly 25, 1924, P.S—The Chinese never speak of the Vangie as the "Great" River—Wis alway: Jo WI, Cltangchiang.
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