The Archive · 1933

MARKS OF ORIGIN Chinese Labels

To the Editor of the "Nort#-Cinna Datty News"

Wildern impressed immediately with a of futility, No escape, no escape. Why trudge the weary dusty miles—to be thrast back into eternal noise? One cannot seek escape from Civilisation with impunity, gregarious instincts will always find you out and shatter enchantment with screeches, This last Sunday we found, to our amazement, that there is yet another type of person who seel our lovely' little Later the afternoon, when happy people lay relaxed on the main beach of Chapoo, with a faint regret already stirring in them at the thought of Wepartire,—they beheld, more or Tess simultaneously, the peculiar Behaviour (or perhaps we suffer from the disease known as "esprit mal tourné")—of a couple, a man and a woman, who calmly, (to all outward appearances,) Proceeded to strip themselves in Sight of everybody on the bea and then sans. fig-leaf and shame, in a state of amazing pri; cordial, primeval "innocence" walked leisurely the whole length of the beach to finally, immerse their nudity, in yellow waters, The onlookers had" various, diverse! theories on the occurrence.

Some presumed that the couple in ion was suffering from the delusion that, they were Phryne, (who upheld the. theory that whatever Sin,—Regarding the memorandum Jsubmitted to the London Conference Jon the 11th instant by the Chinese Jdelegation and granting that Impossible to deny to any state the right to enable consumers to tinguish domestic from foreign foods, I, for one, would very much ike to know why the Chinese government are allowing all kinds of products, manufactured in China in imitation of foreign products, to be sold by unscrupulous people' under [labels which, not only give no Indication of thei local manufactur:

ut" on the: contrary. bear all indications leading the in-Jexpert. consumers to. belles that they are buying imported progat ods sold under such misleading labels. are too. numerous fnumterated ranging from so-called For ince, Shen, oe, foe perquisites to cite only the lant ones have noticed recently.

A little home leant ing would not e'amias im that case.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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