THE CHINESE
TO THE SDITOR. Sir, —A disturbance in tlie auction mart, reported in "The Post" of 6th March may well be the outcome of recent comment upon the fly nuisance. We Britishers pride ourselves on fair play, and no doubt the Chinese look to us for it. May they not naturally feel themselves the butt of attack when bylaws are so openly broken by citizens of English blood without prosecution as in the matter of fowlruns in the city—natural breeding grounds of rats and flies? Personally, I have found the fly the greatest nuisance in the backblocks of New Zealand, quite remote from Chinese penetration. Sir Robert Stout recently said tliat the Chinese were examples of industrious, la'.v-abiding citizens. Between the kindly jurist and the equally kindly soldier there is a wide difference. When General Richardson speaks of the "streak of-yellow paint" in the Pacific he offends truth and good taste. Verily it is we who are the streak of white paint in the East. That dead diplomat of Samoa, R. L. Stevenson, in "Across the Plains," wrote one remarkable .passage, in defence of the Chinese, which 1 would like to see oflener. quoted. It the League of Nations is ever to be effective it must be a more, definite promotion of goodwill and fair play amongst the individual citizens of many lands.— I am, etc., ENGLISHWOMAN. sth March.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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