To the Editor of the "Nonmu-Cursa Datcy News"
Sm—England and Portugal had travelled through life bound by ties of brotherly friendship for many centuries. Events in the present world made the mutual friendship and alliance of Britain and Portugal more important to both civilized countries. Founded on centuries of tradition and mutual goodwill. it is today, as in the days of Wellington and Nelson, a mutual interest, We, Portuguese, in the foreign Settlement and in the French Con cession of Shanghai, would like to jasure our friends the local British residents that they can count also here upon a widespread friendship, and that the age-old diplomatic attachment between our respective countries is not a mere political concern, a marriage of interest only. but also of respect and love.
Our soldiers had mingled their blood on the battlefields, falling in the same cause, not once through [some chance diplomatic arrangements but times without number down the ages.
Outsiders will soon find out that the Portuguese ideals are again British. ideals, and that at war we will always Join and follow England at any time, at sea, on land, and in the alr.
'A Porruavest, Shanghai, Sept. 12.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.