To the Editor of the Norru-Cuixa Datty News."
Sit,—On page 14 of the "Northe China Daily News" of August 22 a report was given of a police raid on gambling house. One paragraph runs og follows:—"'The premises on which the wheel was run are said to be owned by a man -nam Kumsoo, a British subject".
To. prevent a wrong. impression being given and any inference being drawn that T was aware of, of otherwise in any way connected with, truth in the old joke that if a Chinese firm made $4,000 last year and]
London and another in New York, and such information leading to done nothing towards increasing the value of their land reap the benefit plenty of arm-chair critics in Shang- th gambling, T would ask you to hai, but they fail to take advantage [publish the following facts.
{$8,000 this yenr, a loss of $1,000 has] locate. these. pi laces where There one can of the bona fide landowners' work. of their opportunitic one can it opportunities.
The house that was raided beea See ouching on, this {meet China hands willie welcomed. They, merely invest T am, ete, speculative purposes and do not /o¢ ratepayers in the Facisti, and itin which I live. I let the baure to land There must be dozens or hundreds small bungalow close to the hot iMegal profits, the long ruffering Wow Lrave, Pay one cent towards the municipal and left by unprincipled shopkeepers, 1 beings mulcted right shanghai, Aug. 24, 192 rate on properties to the total oasessed value of Tis, 221 millions. whose prices all vary and who can-They deprive us of Tls. 7,785,000.
offer any Adequate reasons for|CHINESE AND BOL (about Tls. 72 millions) annually the extortionate increases, There-which they ought to pay, if they To the Editor of the fore in my opin certainly were to pay the same rate (34 per up to the foreign firms, particularly
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