we wei Useless Promises To the Editor of the "NontH-CHina Daly News."
Sin—In writing the history of the territory which appeared in your to-day's issue Dr. John Darroch seems to have overlooked the following telegram sent by Lord Salisbury on March, 1898, to Sir Charles MacDonald, the Britis Minister to Peking. The telegram reads as follows:
"As the balance of power in the Gulf of Pechili is materially To the Bditor of the "Nostu-Cxina Day News."
Siz—For months past the civilized, world has felt the keenest anxiety as to the fate of the two noble ladies who years ago left their homes for China with the sole object of doing good to the people of this unhappy land. The worst has now happened and Miss Harrison and Miss Nettleton have been brutally murdered tu China altered by the cession of Port Arthur to Russia, it is therefore necessary to obtain, in the manner you think most efficacious and speedy, a lease of Weihaiwei on the departure of the The terms should be si those granted to Russia for Port Arthur, British Fleet is on way from Hongkong to the Gulf of Pechili."
This is taken from the British and Foreign State Papers, and should be read in conjunction with the often-repeated statement that China offered Weihaiwei to the British,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.