To the Editor of the "Noati-Ciya Dary News"
Sm—If there are any who doubt the capacity of the Japanese soldiery to commit the atrocities your recent editorial has courageously publicized, those doubts will be removed by a study of their acts, and the mentality behind them, at the Great Western-Keswick Roads barrier, in connexion' with the examination of incoming and outgoing peasantry, I had decided that the witness of my own eyes alone would decide for or against the much-propagandized chivalry of the Japanese army. I very definitely render my verdict against the Japanese troops. Wielding unfixed bayonets for prodding and ior flat-edged beating of their admittedly well-padded persons, and bamboos for cracking them about their exposed heads, I saw numbers of Chinese peasantry subjected to brutal handling I was amazed to note that aged women were not excepted, and in the course of ten minutes I saw three knocked to the ground, There were no éx-cusses of battle-heat or provocation, for the proceedings purported to demonstrate Japanese "benevolence" in re-admitting the Chinese peasantry to their homes.
DiSILLUSIONED.
Shanghai, Jan, 24.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.