To"the Editor of the NontH-Cuina Dai News!
Suj—Whatever view one may take of the "Nationalists," it must admitted that they do know how rbr omen ruler etki 1% to use propaganda. A reply has gto @ shh 77] just been sent to w message fro To Yaterie Half Serums (on B00) the Amerienn Government com: plaining of murders committed To Intesior Embankment Half Tax {PNT of riner on #90) @ 1% F 25 Shantung, districts that wore at Full Tax (on the time under the central of the Torment Mdoicpa if tax Nationalists." The "reply" sent blandly ignored these complaints and impertinently congratulated To Municipal, Stamps the American Government upon To Contribution to Local Chamber on surtax often) advis merican citizens "to take refuge in x place of safety"—refere ing by the way to the "unsatis-'To Fiekgtt to Nanchang per train \etory attitude" of the American Government, which will no doubt Beet tw & Foundation") cause Me. Kellogg to blush with -t5|gratitention vat having seelyed Te Teonng charger and relosing Sch high praise from such a sour Carrying coolie Hire, or Compa The "reply" goes on to say that tne Nanking "Government hax done "all in its power to ete Total adequate protection to the lives a Enclosing my card, property of foreigners residing.
Tam, ete, within the territory under control fof: the Nationalist. Government." Shanghai, June 1928, By fair inference, of course, as the murders complained of-—in fact all outrage against for-'To the Editor of the igners committer during the "Norru-Cinva Datuy News. past eighteen months—were in te Sim.—In this mornings issue tory Sunder the contro! tie Nationalist G your paper, you publish a letter that "Government" is either written by Rev. J. McGillivray an leas, or is treating Truth with headed Spuecze under Feng Yue disdain, hsiang." The letter was evidently This "reply," apparently tact written under a sense of great in-Justice and wrong, occasioned by common or garden logic, is in reality well turned propaganda weapon having to pay about 15 per cent, for use against the Japanese. ft port duty on goods purchased in will be brought to the notice of the hanghai, which amounted to the good people of America by th sum of $3.50.
Tiad it been a much kgcncies that are actively at work greater squeeze, it would not have here and in America, and they will warranted Mr. McGillivray writing be compelled to deduce that had uch a letter. His verdict of Marshal the Japanese evacuated Tsinan they standing may or would have avoided—murder and ay not Lo the tang urge he loot (at the hands of troops of a Uses is certainly not called for, and that does "al In the missionary hicly will Mash for] power to extend adequate protection shame to be connected with the} tq the lives and property of letter in any way.
Mr. McGillivray says "He has killed the trade of the provitice" and to a certain extent that may be true. Tt algo that other pro-inces are taxed -heavier, a fact which Mr. MeGillvray may be excuss. ed from knowing, but the ki ing of trade does not begin in Kans, The roots are at the coastal ports, and the process goes on at every part of the lory route to Kansu. The last straw oF two that breaks the camel's back are added in. but the foreigners residing within the ter~ ry under control of the Na-calist Government"). That is the the "reply" will put, and of course it was written for this express purpose. The good people of Amoriey will forget alt abet the murders and outrages that formed the original incentive for the American message, as the "reply" carefully avoids mentioning them, and will instead be only too load is already so heavy as to endanger the life of any and every trade.
Mr. MeGilliveay also writes of "The rotten Government of Kansu.' That Kansa is enjoying the mil-ionium is not true, but with Shan-and Kueichow as exception, it has recently enjoyed the blessings of peace and order, such as have made it the envy of the rest China, Marshal Feng would possibly not deny that ko has changed his views of Christianity which is cause for sorrow and regret to us, but his worst enemy cannot deny that he lives simply and rules Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.