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been known to have a very direct and personal interest in the amount of profit made in a year's working. They may not venture far beyond Fanling in their exploration of China, but they have connections with others whose business and interest it is to survey the field and explore trade possibilities. Readers of your article in the Manchester Guardian Commercial are given the impression that the man on the spot is asleep at his job, and that millions whether merely 10 per cent.

or over 40 does not really matter - of Chinese have all the

money they want to satisfy any desire, but the British

merchants in Hong Kong are too lazy to take it! That theory may serve to boost your Trade Fair, Beatrice, but it is

unfair and untrue, and I am surprised that a lady who have been twice captured by bandits should still be so careless about terminological inexactitudes.

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Shanghai, February 10, 1935.

JUNIUS SINICUS.