To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuiva Dairy News."
Siz,—My attention has been called to an article entitled "Japan and 'I'singtao" which appeared in your edition ("N. C, Herald') of April 22, 1922 (p.232). In that article, your correspondent quoted the Editor of the "Uhung Hua Hsinpao" as saying: "Our representatives at the Washington Conference carelessly fixed the price of the salt fields, but the Chinese salt companies will not find it profitable to carry on the business."
To point out the incorrectness of this statement, I can do no better than quote section XI of the Shantung Treaty, which deals with the salt industry:—"Whereas the salt industry is a. Government monopoly in China, it is agreed that the interests of Japanese subjects or Japanese companies actually engaged in the said industry along the coast of Kiaochou Bay shall be purchased by the Government of the Chinese Republic for fair compensation, and that the exportation to Japan of a quantity of salt produced by such industry along the said coast is to be permitted on reasonable terms.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.