To the Editor of the "Norrit-Cana Day News"
Sin,—Nanking, Past I am very happy you speak of Nanking but T cannet tell you that the "Past" is true but only history.
Nanking, Present This I can speak about your article in the "North China Daily News" of the 30th last and it true but a few words of explana are good for you.
The Local improvement Society has worked hard from times to times and asked the officials to build two mew bridges over the Greek and make two new roads inthe city, one parallel with the Nanking City Railway—which worse than useless—and one parallel with the Creek and entering the city at the busiest through the Hansimen. We also asked the officials for City waterworks and ood sewage to the river to keep ts clean and abolish th Nothing can be done as no one interests in public affairs and all fare dead to future and officials are only birds of passages and don't have time to benefit the peoples. It is a sad story of no progress for twenty more years and worse comes in the end rate, So sad to ug that our tears fall quickly and nothing done.
Tam, ete, LIANG' Sut Ping.
Late Secretary of the Nanking Local Improvement Society of Students and merchants.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.