To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiwa Day News SmI was surprised to read in the Hankow papers a few days ago that the Count de Martel in a speech made at Nanking is reported to have spoken to the effect "that some of the Concessions now administered by the Chinese are in better condition than when under foreign control."
Possibly the Count may have been misreported, but certainly there is no doubt' in the minds of Hankow residents as to which Concession is most efficiently run at the present time. It is the Japanese, One can taken lady for a walk through their Concession without seeing coolies "using the near foreshore og a latrine, or being a compulsory witness to young Chinese girls of 12 being paraded along the foreshore on hire to boatmen, 1 might also recall that tthe recent Communist expulsion way carried out in a proper manner by the Japanese authorities, where in the French Settlement women were marched through the streets on 2 cold night in night attire while the French police occupied side seats as spect The ronds in the ex-British Concession at present are in a filthy state, the police are inefficient, and it is only a few weeks ago th lady was spat on by some soldiers, be of into know that have just been kow by 36 per cent.; the reason for this increase is that the crowd of Chinese officials refuse to pay their bills, Tam, ete, Hankow, Feb, 12, 1928, ***We have no actual informa. jon a3 to what I. de Murtel said regarding the Concessions, but it may interest our correspondent to know that the Chinese Press hus been utterly misinformed as to others of the remarks he: was reported as having made during his Fecent visit to Nanking—Ed,
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