To the Baitor of the "Nowsn-Cuiia Dairy News"
Sin—I like to inform you that it's very" peaceful here,, riv radios, hawkers and very little noise. ' The Japanese soldiers are very polite, if you do not unnecessarily trouble them in their business.
My experience of some days out here tells me that it is quite safe to be out on the main thoroughfares even after dark. 1 was on my way home about 9° pim. one evening walking in the dark. Groups of Soldiers more oF less filed with Saki were also returning to their sleeping places. One started Yo talk with me a happy mood putting his arm around my neck while doing so. 1 understood that he wished to teach me some Japanese. When he slackened his grip around me 1 hurried away, but Thad not gone far when one of the fellow's camevades run Sp to me and said: "Please excuse Im, hei. drunk Oinerwise, the life out here is not comfortable. True, one foreign Shop has opened ts doors already in Wayside, there is sll some coal eft in the' different coal yards, $08 {do not need to walk, os the Japanese have' placed some buses om the road and you can always get a lit from many vehicles, which rush along the "Broadway, but" still plenty Is wanted and if that Se not arranged ory. soot! tte Impression, that. the [Japanese are very" poor reconstruet= arm cannot be 8 Following arrangements have to be rao at once Phe Shanghai General Bus ce, must be allowed to place fame of their busses on run on the ther side of the creek. (The Japan have only a couple of ears and nobody scows "to" know anything bout their movements).
"@)Rickshaws munt be allowed to stay and do business In the "Shang hai' Japan'™—this ought to. be" very nay to arrange.
3) Shops, Japanese, if no others, tobe allowed to open all over the Wayside and Yangiszepoo, where there are Inhabitants.
"Chinese food, vegotabes, ote, to be bought in the district. This most important.
There are some wishes connected entirely with the Chinese. interests, which should have been dealt. with also Tong time ago, but we foreigners fre mostly concerned with the above few improvement, at leat.
T do not care, if Wayside is Chine Settlement or Jepan. 1 cannot change the things in any way. To appearances Wayside a Japan fang, thus, itis Who face of Japan which fg at stake. Many believe th Japan can only kill and destroy, but isa poor builder and reconstructor.
nere. in: Wayside would. not like 10 Join this opinion and, therefore, the above is presented through your Who rule tio ide of te world paper to the nellie. of those, Shanghai, Jon, 12.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.