To the Editor of the "Norra Chihn Dany News"
Sm—The irrepressible Mark (Mark Twain) once remarked that the British are the meekest of men, (therefore are they inheritors of the Earth). But what the "inherited" themselves have to say on this point is, of course, another story, However, this is no opportune season for flag waving, particularly when it is more likely to "aggravate the situation" than otherwise; and aggravation is bad form in business diplomacy—excluding those of arms dealers, Min. Rees often speaks in his letter of this now* LigibiONAE—MWK › or, the First Special District of the City Government of Shanghai, as if it were still the "International Settlement" so-called, that had been. This is surprising as Mr, Rees, I believe, reads Chinese and should have better the "Willies"? Nothing, unfortunately, can we say to justify the rotten deal given to certain dogs in the disturbed area: we can only surmise that their owners are in the 1wrr.є WiLLie class and deserve the same fate we would mete out to him, with the fervent hope that the "Vermin" on the "other side" got due notice of their arrival. Why, because dogs suffered and died in Yangtszepoo should their more fortunately placed brothers be denied the joys of our Course? Maybe I've just been lucky, but I very rarely come across an "ill-trained tyke" there; most. dog-owners are honest enough td keep their pets in order in humble appreciation of the fact that the Race-Course is kept open to them. Was it because in London "dogs have no rights and are, by law, simply tolerated so long as they do not prove to be public pests," that Lime Wir finds himself in Rabid Shanghai?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.