The Archive · 1925

Shanghai, Joly 9, 1926

STILL BETTER — ELECTRICITY AND THE MILLS

To the Editor of the "NontHt-Cuina DAtLy News" regard to sour article in your Issue of yesterday ing the electricity supp hat, had the post! trol of the public utility ¢o7 there {no room for doubt what action would have been talion by them ard that all the fore'yi not set tve late t2 eet oF restric powes, ay well os the water supply. from Uh Cainese rnp Feacon on earth shy foreigners should overwork themselves and are laughing at the fast eigners for mot eaitiog of Cie ser=

History that, when the irhabican! try respect the law and when the ty becomes powerful and fand safe to live in. Can said of China?

When literate Chinese like Mr. Francis Zia cannot distinenish right from wrong and assume tie role of champions of lawbreakers, what may one expect from their uneducated and quasiceducated (the Gents, for example) courlrymen? As tome of your correspondents have already declared, the Chinese

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people respect riy the law Abuses are alleged to have been committed in the Mixed Court. I ici, however, that -the trates and affeers of this Court can-rot be bribed. From my owe.per-Sonal experience with Chinese Gourts just outside of the Shanghai Foreign Settlement, Tafirm that the officials of these Couris, from the highest to the lowest, "accent for the truth! Be picky, enough Bir, Westidze!! Lying an abomination to the

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