'To the Editor of the "Normi-Cuina Dany News'
Sim—The chief supporter of the Iieague is the British Empire. We! pay more to its coffers than any-! body else. China gives the Leagve more trouble than any other natica fand is vast sums of money in arrears. [China causes the League her heavijest expense and contributes the Toast.
is time we recognized facts Jand then acted on them. We should withdraw altogether from the League, instead of trying to bolster Let it be recognized at once that! the League is a purely man-made institution and that the Ruler of the, Universe GOD is utterly banned from ell its discussions and documents. Now it is proposed to admit the niterly and avowedly Godless Notion of Russia to lis ranks. This wil conplele the uselessness of the League.
"The League does not_make for} peace but really for war and the world will be the better off by its break up. All world conferences have failed and will continue to fail The Chief Ruler of the World is entirely ignored and flouted.
The only League of nations that nas any chance of success is the There is one thing which the National Lottery has accomplished and that is, that "it has successfully reduced the income of the Race Club, 20 that many charitable insti. tutions which received useful and much needed help in years past will go empty-handed from now on far as this source of income ie concerned. Amongst these Institutions there is a considerable number. from which the "Chinese people derive benefits such as they would, even to this day, not "have received from their own people had not the foreigners given the lead.
There is, in a general way, a tendency in Chinese Government circles to seek for faults and causes of failure amongst objectives which will usefully serve in the nature of Thus, the Government bewails the decrease of exports from China and takes a determined attitude against higher silver in order to prevent further deterioration in the unfavourable trade balance.
As a matter of fact, practical experience will show, that high silver has always brought good trade to China. AS. recently as in the inflam tionary period of the USS. trade, in some products, was very good to the! States as else to Europe. Steady' high silver brings trade, but taxed native products super-taxed, export-taxed, inspection-taxed, subjected to absurd Customs and inspection rules ju very many instances, obstruct and negative export-trade and this is, in the first instance, where reforms, very wide-reaching reforms, are re-
Quired to zive new vigour' and lite] league of the free nations constitute to China's export trods. All Gov-ug the British Empire and acknow-! ernments, the world over, promote! penalizing the produc 's"apmard but in many Countries the exporter receives Gov minent aid by wey of premiums oF frame other form. Lat the Chinese Governmest think about this and also the. absurdly high import tari Stich coning them millions in lost Fevenue. annually. 1 will be time Enough to worry about. problems
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Ghinese nation, I have: drawn atten: Sen, Shanghai, May 29.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.