Will Japanese Help Western District is one. The definition of the same is West of Avenue Haig, Bast of Keswick Road, South of Vu Yuen Road, and North of To the Editor of the #Norra-Cuma Dany NEWS"
$m,—Your leader in to-day's paper about the possible invasion of the Western District by factories of various kinds draws attention to an evil with which the, district has been threatened only. during the past few months, When the Chinese Government were in authority they had a very workable set of building rules which were strictly enforced in the western areas and which were designed to maintain their residential character. It would seem that in the inter-reg num existing between the overthrow of one authority and the establishment of another, certain Chinese are taking advantage of the situation, - Whether they are doing so with the permission or encouragement of the Ta Tao Government is not clear, but at any rate the fact is very well known that the Ta Tao Government can exist only by permission of the Japanese authorities in Shanghai—probably the Japanese gendarmerie, but at any rate the Japanese High Command.
Japan herself isan industrial country, but probably no country in the world is so jealous of its residential amenities and beauty spots as is Japan. They are preserved with a fine and thoughtful care, and there seems little doubt that, if the attention of the Japanese authorities were drawn to the situation existing in the Western District, they would be the first to support the efforts of the new Association to exclude undesirable industries from a pleasant suburb of this International Settlement, Taree Brwoes.
Shanghai, Mar. 21.
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