To the Editor of the "NontH-Cuina Daty News.
Sin,—The "North-China Daily News" reaches me very irrogular~ ly. lay I received the "N.-C, D.N." of the 2ist and 27th ultimo, the intervening numbers have not yet arrived. The above mentioned two copies are, however, bringing it home to me more than ever that the time has come for action, I do not know, Sir, who writes the Leaders or the articles under "Notes and Comments" in your esteemed paper. However T must confess, that they are all of them nearly as disappointing as those you may read in the Home Papers, it dearing with things Chinese. They are us a rule only discussing what is actually happening or what likely to happen (the Inst a sane leader-writer ought never discuss after having lived in this country for some years) but Tam disappointed at the lack of real "sound advice.
It ix to the foreign press of China, that we are looking for help in this awful crisis, The [foreign press published in China is, being angerly studied by the people at Home. The press can do more than all the members of the Diplomatic Body at Peking. The north-China Daily News" has led the way in other matters. May we express the hope that the Old
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