Property Owner's Complaint To the Eaitor of the "Nonmi-Cuixa Datty News"
Sm—One wonders if property owners in the Western District of Shanghai, particularly in the vicinity of Great Western Road, realize what is happening to their ' investments. Matohwood erections are going up: all over the place, not to accom: modate refugees' from occupied areas, but a bunch of loafers and human parasites of the lowest and. worst type who are there at present to prey on the country people bringing in their produce. At such time og vegetables, cotton, ete,, resume the normal channels of—transportation, by creek and motor truck, the filthy rift-raf will remain to~prey on the foreign residents who live in that area, If one desires to erect a decent dwelling or shop it Is necessary to: submit to all sorts of troublesome formalities; plans, sanitation, drainage, fireproof partitions, ete, and yet hhovels of the flimsiest construction, mere. matchboarding, are being erected every day right on Great Western Road. A docent residential area built up principally on foreign Investment Is rapidly becoming a slum area, ind the authorities are doing nothing.
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