To the Editor of the "NonrH-CHINA Day News"
Sm,—I beg through your esteemed journal to raise my objection to the recent criminal wave, as I like to say of profiteering by raising house rentals during the hard times, It is not my condemnation only, I suppose, but of the majority of Shangha: people, that the most callous behaviour of human indecency is to make money when people are almost going naked, and this is yet another striking example of landlords' attempts to make suckers out of us all I have been living in Gordon Road Terrace at the same place for years in a so-called modern, foreign-styled house; every way modern in its details except when rain comes. The eaves, roofs and drainage will then serve me like a ship in storm. As a rent payer I believe I have some right to demand a few repairs, but I finally decided not to make any owing to the fact that my request might after all be filed in the waste basket.
To my great surprise the landlords recently sent to me as welles my neighbour a short notice, that the rents of the premises are to be increased by $12. I can do nothing other than to voice my complaint against such injustice through your paper and leave it open to the criticism of the public,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.