To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Chihn Dany News"
Sm—In a comment in to-day "North-China Daily News" on the lack of liners visiting Shanghai, it is said that the British community owes a deep gratitude to those British lines which have managed to keep in contact with Shanghai and in doing so have made a great contribution to the work of maintaining the commerce and passenger traffic of this port moving. This no doubt refers to the local British lines, Jardine's and Butterfield's.
It may also be a graceful tribute to acknowledge with gratitude ' the contributions of a similar nature made by the Messageries Maritimes and the Lloyd Triestino lines, the only companies, I believe, who have booked passengers from home ports direct to Shanghai and have landed them here or at the mouth of river, during the present hostilities. The many hundreds of refugees from Hongkong and Singapore, who would not be here were it not for the calls made by these companies at Shanghai, will I am sure join in this appreciation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.