To the Editor of the "Norru-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—Will you kindly allow me space to warn people who may want to buy an American trunk. I have just purchased a trunk from a large Chinese department store in Nanking Road believing it to be "American" as it is marked on the lock Corsin Cantyer Lock Ca., Newsritray. The price was dirt cheap, now that a cheap sale is going on, and I was very pleased with the bargain, but when I opened it the next day I saw that it was all Japanese by the cloth lining used and the usual smell of Japanese wood. After further investigation of the trunk I found that only an American lock was used, and everything else Japanese. A very clever and legal mode of deception. I am now unable to use the trunk because clothes put inside when taken out after a while will be smothered with strong unpleasant smell of Japaese soft wood, which smell rave dies out even by boiling as I have experienced. It would be good of you to try to get this into the Chinese press for the protection of our worthy Chinese friends from such deceptions.
Thanking you for the space, I am, etc., A. R. Shanghai, May 98.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.