17 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 14

NO CHINESE CANCER SIR,—.11 am a regular reader of your

high class magazine as also of your other journal New Statesman. Though I have not before entered y our print I am moved to do so after reading your many clever and interesting letters about tobacco smoking.

,:;It should be brought to the notice of all readers of your paper that in the Peace Loving Peoples Democratic Republic of China, no carcinoma of the lungs is known since nationalisation of tobacco industry.— Yours faithfully,

S. VISN1WATHANARA) ANAN

Fairfield P.O., U.S.T.C., S. India