Although acute anxiety is discounted it is clear from the inlerestspell @ ood story, but sometimes 1 f= disappointing to have to the duty has to bedene, That viva-lows weekly journal, the "China Weekly Review" ministers to. sensitive spleen by' frequent. reflections on the ingrained—wicked~ ness of the haughty and naughty British. Inthe process it not seldom' manages to chastise this Journal which, being. British, naturally prong to exhibit the faults of its race, The other day Reuter telegraphed a few details about the British Ministerdesignate and, in. advertently, included. the informa: tion that his brother-in-law, the Euuil of Gosford, was a Divector of the British American Tobacco Com~ pany. That statement was omitted by the "North-China Daily News" in reproducing the Reuter message, course the "China Weekly Review"* perceived at once that another Brit~ ish plot, was being hatched. With the righteous "determination lymveyed custodian of British morals, it proceeded to show the reason' for this journal's deception but modestly ascribed the vigilance to unnamed Chinese. The idea was that the "North-China Daily News' detail of Mr. Cadogan' family ties detineately, conetling that because the Chinese Government had under consideration certain ans it. connection with the tobacco business. Thus is the public beauti fully warned of the insidiousness of ness, The omission was made simply decawse Reuter, for once, was not up-todate, The Earl of Gosford's \directorship and all associations with the British American Tobacco Company (China), Ltd, ceased over six He has never been th the British Americ company, Ltd. The setback should not "dishearten the china Weekly "Review"; it will surely be able to diceover more un= pleasant things about the British—Jand this journal—next. week.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.