To. the Editor of the "NonTH-CHINA SUNDAY News, Sit—Much ax 1 am inclined 1". ta overlook the immodernae of "A: Son of Chini (the author of which book, Sheng Cheng, is here at present, and presuniably is not the writer signing under that nom do plane.) it is too much to overlook the personal at tack on "HLA.T." perpetrated One Hundred Per Cent." and pillory ying quite unoffending members of the commmmity, who, he fondly agines, would thereby be duly snub:
On the subject matter of the dis cussion iving vise to this anpleasant interlude, i ix evident that, Tike myself, public opinion is against abolition. For the present, [resent the cowardly attack on an'estimable writer, bracketted with others who are I eric. but who have: een pi evil colours with: itt the slightest provocation.
Shanghai, October 24, The Lesson Of Fukien To the Yalitor of the Nowr-Cuina Dairy News."
Sm—No doubt the world will be} driven eventually to do something Hike what "Wayfarer" suggests for this, her troubled Asiatic province But' the cost of it is not going to anything like what might—be raised by mendicant methods or even by a "drive." But no doubt with the necessity will come its funds, However, if a collection should. be made for the commemoration of the serifice of the two vietinis, si for no sin of their own, as is clearly. evident from reports published your paper I hope not a single ent of it will be used: for inter-con, or for a worser thing meddling in native military affairs, such as. your suggestive corresponiient proposes, lest a greater evil come through rendering unto Cesar the things of God.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.