To the Editor of the Nowrm-Cutna Dainty News Sit,—A curious mistake the column in your to-day's is sue headed "Manchuria and the Bib Tt is well known that comparative: ly few of the Manchus are found in the country which bears their
ive in the cities of China proper.
the great majority of them Perhaps there are more Manchus in the one province referred to, Sinkiang, than in the whole of ths Jand which was their ancestral home.
The current Chinese equivalent for Manchuria is "Tung Shan Sheng" (the Three Eastern Provinees), and our perpetuation of the name "Manchuria" leads not infrequently to the erroneous idea that those regions still are peopled by the Manchu:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.