Dec. 24.
A correspondent calls our attention to a letter appearing in the November-December issue of the "Review of Reviews" of London, from a Hongkong Chin-resident in London, in which "the old lie of the notice in the Shanghai Public Gardens No dogs or Chinese allowed' is again resurrected." Curiously enough, only a few days before this letter reached us, we had received from Home an article on "The Revolution in China" contributed by H. N, Brailsford to the "New Leader".-of November 19 last.
The character of the article may reputation of this writer for using his. undoubted talents chiefly to blacken the character his fellow-countrymen; and further, from his description of (Colonel Malone's venomous and lying attack on British policy in the Far East, as "this readable and judicious "pamphlet." what' strikes one most is a jure in the middle of the page representing a Chinese being turned back from the Public Gardens by an armed Sikh, who is standing beside a large placard inscribed "No Dogs or Chinese Admitted." The picture is purely imaginary in other respects, besides the supposed placard.
But is this old slander. never to be buried? On October 5, 1925, Mr. J. E, Jacobs, American Consul-in-charge at the time, wrote to the Chairman of the Municipal Council saying that he had received an inquiry from America as to the truth of this slander and asking for any in~ formation the Council could supply. To this letter the Secretary of the Council was directed to write as follows:
In reply, I have the honour to form you that no such notices are posted in any parks or in any other places under the Council's jurisdic tion; furthermore, careful investig tion' reveals the fact that no notice has ever appeared in the International Settlement.
For your information, I have pleasure in handing you herewith three photographic reproductions of notices posted in the various parks and gardens, The Council would, accordingly, greatly appreciate it, #f when replying to. the Dearborn Publishing Company, you would emphatically point out that such state~ ments as these are entirely false, unfounded and unwarrantable and that their publication is. strongly objected to by the (Couneit and. the Foreign Community of Shangha T have the honour ete, All this correspondence is to be found in the Municipal Gazette of October 9 last year. Since it appeared, it is only ju to say that we have not heard much repetition from Chinese in the Far East, of this false and spiteful slander. One can only the more regret that some of Jour fellow countrymen are less Raxrout, Ill, Dec. Two aeroplanes to-day collided 1 Four officers were killed, Lu Hsiang-ting, Tupan of Chekiang has tendered" his resig= nation owing to illness, his physicians having ordered him to take a long rest.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.