To the Editor of the "Nowru-Caiwa Dany News Sim—With regard to the assur-snees of protection and the mainten-lance of law and iven by] [General Pei Chung-hsi, it i" well to bear in mind that similar pledges, supported by the most. solemn pro testations thet they would be carried! out, were given at Hankow' and Kiukiang, only to turn out to be deliberate and treacherous deception.
Then again, in the Note which the Waichid@pu. addressed to the British} Legation on January 31 last protesting against the despatch of British troops t6 Shanghai and r:- questing their "immediate withdrawal," Dr. Wellington Koo saw fit to insert the following statement:
"If such movement (of British]
troops) is merely for the protection of the Shanghai Settlement there is no real cause for alarm. The:
Chinese military and police forces stationed in the vicinity of Sharghai_are amply capable of main-jin and without, assurapee of "ample and capable" maintenance of order "within and without ment" we are now in a position Taig is the atmosphere in which new that we ex trust nothing "hat the Chinese 939%
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