To the Eiditor of the "NontH-Cuina DAILY News.
Sir,—I congratulate "A Chinese Christian" upon the able letter he wrote you in yours of the 2nd just arrived: but T think he has missed the whole point at issue, He argues as if military' acts of of course they are not: they are police protection matters only.
Is it right to protect the community from violent crimes such as arson, murder, rape, robbery and 0 fon? Surely the answer from any sane person must be yes.
China is at the merey of ruffians fof the worst possible kind and. is wholly incapable of—protecting peaceful and law-abiding persons of their property. Foreign gunboats step in at this moment to enforce order and protect the innocent: they retire the moment this hus been attained.
The mere repetition therefore of the words "force" and "gunboats" and their application to the mission-tries ax something to be condemned shows that writers have not thought the question through. They are shallow slogans thoughtlessly shout ed as if they were misdemeanours, They are not.
If the Concessions ure to be abolished because political refuges sometimes take shelter there, then by the same reasoning Japan and other nations that give such shelter should also be abolished, The argument is unsound, It ix noticed that sons who at the have nothing to few ery aloud as to the iniquity allowing the Concessions to. exist, Dut these same people are the very first to take shelter there. whet trouble arises, Patriotic Chinese resent the fact that the bulk of their ordinary citizens prefer foreign Protection which assures to. them safety and peace to the vile bandit and tuchun rule they are now cursed with, Let "A Chinese Christian" remove to the interior bandit-and-military-cursed areas and seo how quickly the would fly to some kind of foreign Protected shelter if he could do so, Millions up country would welcome the advent of a foreign regiment of soldiers which guaranteed their security We must face Facts and not mere Theories.
Tam, ete, EpWaRo 8, Lirtis, Kuling, Feb. 6, 1925.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.