To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cutsa Dany News."
Si,—The following brief extract from a private letter just received, will I think interest your readers, as corroborating the demurrer I ventured' to set up a fow days ago to the dictum of A Diplomatist "as to the hostile attitude of the Japanes>.
After speaking of the ruin and defeat of Japan, stiould war come (which may God forbid) being by no means a foregone conclusion and certainty, the writer proceeds thus:—"* have just come back from a bicycle ride of 272 miles through the heart of what is the most jingoistic and old. fashioned part of Japan; and we met with nothing but courtesy and absolute friendliness from begining to end. From the old won tan why hat never seen a bicycle before, and thought we were gods, and the schoolboys who raced us through every lage, to the thoughtful men and village elders houses and inns, not one As foreigners lable politeness nce were we suspected as Russian The only policeman who took any ice of us, was one that exe rushing to our assistance when there was some dill i gan old woman anders! Tike sox when we said "England but it was never followed by disrespectful words of any other foreign country. In fact the attitude of the people generally, quist, reliant, confident, courteons, is simply admirable.""
Tam, ete, Not a Dirtomatist.
30th October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.