To the Ealtor of the "Norm Cuma Dany News"
SmI fool certain that all members of the foreign community will wish fo echo the sentiments you finely expressed in the leading article fon November 12, These are days in which our Chinese friends are going through agonies of mind and soul. Those who have the imagination to understand what "It means, anda heart to sympathize, will take the occasions that present themselves to show to individual friends something. fat least of what they feel for them, hard though it be to express, 1 would venture to suggest that. there Is one more thing we might do, We might refuse to have anything to do with all proposals that. would seem {0 be taking advantage of the situation to create nm new and privileged position for foreigners. even in the sacred name of trade, The people of this country are our partners. To make some. fresh arrangement when. they are Immensely preoccupied with maintain-Ing the very existence of their: ration would look rather like something that bears the ugly name conspiracy. We British may be a nation of shopkeepers, but both we and our American cousins are des berately proud of our reputation for sense of honour, for sportsmanship and for fairplay, T would also venture to hope, on the same grounds, that there may be hho tame acquiescence in any attempts interfere with our liberties In the central districts of this Settlement, Surrounded though we may be, we fare not living here in a conquered or occupied area. The Settlement is a partnership, No one pariner has the right to overrule the interests of all, T think we owe it to. the nation In whose land we live to assure them that the Shanghat Municipal Council with its loyal and efficient police force, backed by the Powers concerned, will continue to be entrusted with "the responsibilities of government, To acquiesce in any" other proposals would be indeed to com-Promise our own reputation and the whole future of this'eity, Shanghai Nov. 16,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.