To the Eaitor of the "Nonmit. Cunwa Darcy News"
few years ago prizes were' offered for the best criticism made of certain pictures. The offer should still be good, az T have a strong criticism "to. make of the picture "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," not of the entire picture for wai good and well supported by fa fine east, but of one of ita finest In the scone, Frolic, the Justice, murdered the Captain of the Guards. Later ho confesses fo his brother the Archbishop UD. When an innocent girl was sentenced to be hanged for crime, the Archbishop rushed into the King's Chamber when the King was at conference with Frolic, pleading for the girl's freedom, swearing her innocence. Whereupon the king, suspecting the Archbishop of knowing the real criminal, besides being a confessor, urged the Arch= bishop to summit to him the, real murderer. Although the Archbishop didn't exactly pronounce the name of the assassin, he made it so dis. net when he' said, "Tam waiting for. my" brother to speak." His. brother then admitted his guilt and walked out' of the chamber. 'The King' then further summoned the Archbishop to vive the motive for ihe killing. The Archbishop replied, "For the love of @ woman'
The erroneous "point is that any confessor cannot and will not repeat, even to 2 king, one's confession.
T wonder it Victor Hugo made the same mistake.
A crime, pay and a certain measure of protec tion from coal "sharks" is badly need ced in these dimeult times, abe sooner disgraceful. practice is stamped the better it will be for the poor landers who are bled white by the activity of those who should at Toast make some sort of an effort to justify their incumnbencies, Shanghai, Feb, 17,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.