To the Editor of the Nonvn-Cuina Dairy News Sirs,—After reading the case of Moller & Ca. in your yesterday's issue, 1 think business men in general, while fully sympathizing with (Mr. Moller and his colleagues, are inclined, many of them, to conclude that Moller © Ca. are merely victims of a very clever piece of maneuvre necessitated by war contingency and legally vied out by the government. ofcials at Hongkong and one that may very well be called a diplomatic triumph.
No patriotic person should blame the government. officials for having seized the only opportunity opened to them to save the government from humiliation even at the expense of Moller & Ca. when so much was at stake.
However hard and unjustifiable the Hongkong Government's action may appear to be, Moller Ca. have only themselves to blame for delaying action when requested to do so, and they should never have allowed any influence to come between them and that end in so important a matter.
Many individuals and concerns have sustained without murmur proportionately greater loss than Moller & Ca. by Government actions during the war, when the the whole of the British Empire was at stake.
People run up against clever people with greater foresight than themselves and suffer loss in consequence under whatever circumstances should inwardly digest and make no fuss about it.
I am, ete., Briton. Shanghai, August 22, 1923.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.