To the Editor of the "Nomri-Cinxa Dany News"
'Sim—The letters appearing your correspondence columns on the Subject of the Seekingjao - Golf Course ure all very much to the oint ud it is to be hoped that they Will soften the hearts and broaden the minds' of the Japanese miliary Tt ig understood that there are good reasons for excluding strangers from the vicinity of military opera tions, yet surely it is within the ea. pacify of the Japanese military to accomplish this, while at the same time permitting the well authentic cated members of the Shanghai Golf Club to enter and disport themselves on the course under competent supervision, Golf is a game that requires usual concentration; the progress of the little ball, fromthe time it rests fon the first tee until it drops into the last hole must constantly be marked and therefore good golf and straying eyes ure incompatible!
Japan is said to have the best golf! courses in the world; people who have golfed in that' country invariably record the pleasure experienced in playing over Japanese golf links, a pleasure by the innate courtesy and hospitality of the Japanese golfing fraternity; there isa fine opportunity to keep up that characteristic national attitude here. The speedy opening of Seekingjeo may have far-reaching effects throughout the world of sport; will be counted as a graceful sporting gesture on the part of the Japanese military who will thus show that the obsession of hostilities has not blinded them to the claim' of sport as a beneficent influence in human affairs.
Shanghai, Mar, 23.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.