To the Editor of the "Norm-Cuixa Dany News"
Sin-—Visrrinc Srectaron's letter in in your to-day's issue can readily be excused on the ground that he has been reading the non-stop tourist author's stories about Shanghai.
Stil, having been here a while, 1 do not understand why be quotes those tourist authorities, by referring. to this city as a "muck-heap." The reference to mud may be taken as referring to the earth in this city, or to the contents of my letter. Which truly was close to mud-slinging, and was meant to be so. He could easily have picked on the letter, and not fon the city. But perhaps he is in training. Training also (0 write a story about Shanghai the wicked, Come 10 Barri.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.