The Archive · 1938

Garden Bridge Incident

A Reply to a Korean

To the Editor of the "Nomru-Cuiwa Dany News"

Smj—May I express the following your esteemed column. The letter under the heading "Garden Brid Incident: Korean's Marked Outburst bearing the name of A Koneax today your "Letters to the Editor" Jcolumn caused me to laugh a whole morning. At first, I thought that the writer had used the proper nouns wrongly, because the things he stated the paper were just contrary to the facts, "He said that the Japanese are educated, polite and humane towards the defenceless foes, and the Chinese ure the cruellest people on earth. If this is s0, T don't know why the Japanese have changed their tempers 50 rapidly after their stepping into the Chinese territories. When I was 1 Nanking after its fall to the Jo panese, T only saw and heard the s0- colled polite and humane Japanese reping the Chinese women and young, girls mercilessly, burning down the Chinese houses and killing of the Innocents in a horrible manner, and the well authenticated reports from all sources in China said the same, Is it what the writer called "polite Jand humane?" Sorry, "I don't ap-Dreciate this kind of treatment at all ind Ti rather take up my lodging in! he so-called erucliest Chinese, than be cared for by the kind Japanes Furthermore, he declared: any defonceteas Buparodsne Whenever the Chinese get or find It is more ridiculous. If he Is not oer-minded, he'd not forget that the Chinese soldiers have once been in Shenghai. But no-one has heard or seen any foreign inhabitant or even any good Japanese civilians, if. not

sures, torn into pieces. "And in turn, violating the Chinese military mea-the Japanese had not been Shanghai, I should say, the injury done to 3 well-known German physician on one of the outlying Shanghai roads, the insult to a British woman Hongkew, and numerous cases of like nature would not have happened, Finally, may 1 advise the Japanese around Shanghai not to get nervous of the city being retaken by the Chinese, in fact, there is every possibility at any moment, and to be' as calm and humane as' usual human beings Shanghai, May 10.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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