The Need for Action Sm—With the general tenor of your leading article to-day I cordially indication as to the action which you think might be taken, It is useless to diagnose without giving prescriptions, Shanghai 4s rather like a duck over whose back lots of water can run without dis turbing the bird's complacence. Cannot something be done? The British community surely can evolve a practical scheme, A beginning might be made by stirring up those organizations which interest themselves in this important subject, Otherwise your charge of callousness will be justified. Only your journal might be more constructive on Its own account.
Shanghai, May 1,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.