To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuixa Datty News! ch what measure of, left to me after long years' contact with "Things Chinese" I fain would call the foreigner in it. would be more to the point to Jborrow Peter Pan's "Silly Ass ad newspaper headlines announcing that the Diplomatic Corps. in Peking has at last done something; and now no longer will the bad Chis, Tys, Taos, ete, go a-roaming in our fair Shanghai. But we stop to think, we at once see how impossible it is to make a thing like this legal with such constant changes and the difficulty of knowing the men who are doing the plotting: indeed, like our friend Feng in Peking, they may belong to the recognized party in power and be plotting against it. But I do not need to go any further, for ti every thinking man the real posi tion is obvious: it is another bluff from Peking. We are indeed trustful souls and think we are getting treat, just as a good ad. that Jour electricity here is now to be cheaper is accepted as fine work, forgetting thay this lowering of the rates was long overdue and even tas low as it ought to be.
mus headlines we are led to believe that Tong Shao-yi will take the portfolio of Foreiga Affairs, that the Anfu Conference in Peking' (why call it by any other name?) means something because Vu Yah-ching is supposed to have Jgone north to attend as representing the merchants of Shanghai; or that. Feng Vu-hsiang is giving his blessing to this conference save in the sense that it suits his little game. No Chinese is fooled by all this talked-takeo.
Let me approach this from a. different angle, iz, that of the hard-headed business. man. How many in Shanghai know the history of the sending off to America and England. of a Chinese Industrial
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