To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiva Daty News"
Smm,—With reference to the controversy or rather I should say Jokes under the captions, "Alas poor China" and "Alas poor Nippon" published in the correspondence columns of your paper dated 32th and 16th instant respectively, 1 take the liberty of asking you to allow me to occupy a little space for my views, Judging from the style of the sentences and contents in the let ters written by "M. 'T." and "N, 0." one cannot help assuming that the letters referred to mast have been by those who have an axe to grind, undoubtedly with malicious intent to arouse il-teeling between and estrange the two Oriental peoples.
Tt is, indeed, a strange coincide once that the said letters are full of grammatical errors which any Chinese or Japanese student, who thas fair command of such English vocabulary as is used in those let-iters, cannot commit and which it is quite evident were deliberately inverted, intending to show to the readers of your paper that the cor respondents are Japanese and Chinese and not British.
"Although, by publishing this sort of letters in your paper, those correspondents may perhaps be try' to conceal the true origin of the! otters, which is decidedly neither Japanese nor Chinore, all right thinking readers would without doubt be well aware that the anonymous "M. T." and "N. 0." who have written those malicious letters, must be some mischief makers with the object of forment-ing quarrels between otherwise friendly nations like China and Tt is a thousand pities to note that such a respectable paper the "North-China Daily News should now-a-days gradually degenerate into an agency for the publication of rubbish and the fact that those letters at issue are certainly a good example of rubbish cannot be denied.
Tam extremely sorry to say that the "North-China Daily News," at least it appears so to the Japanese as a whole, not to speak minded people of other nationalities, is from time to time ing publicity to articles which im at creating mischief which are tantamount to no less than vices.
'As to' what. sorts of vices your waper has done anent articles you are publishing, I dare to ask you, Sir, to place your hands calmly on your breast and reflect for yourself.
In conclusion, I would like to re mind-our Chinese friends that the contents of the letter pulished in this paper under date of December 12 by one, who professes himself to bea Japanese young student, which T believe not, by no " means indicative of views harboured towards the people of China by the Japanese people as a whole, much Tess by all of Japanese" young:
Tam, ete, Shanghai, Dee. 18, 1924.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.