To the Editor of the "NortH-Cmna Dany News"
Sin—It_will not be without considerable disgust that many will have read the ignorant effusion from Jor Toc Toque which disgraced your correspondence columns of June 14. The utter disregard on his part for Chinese susceptibilities, particularly at a time when the nation is being bereaved of hundreds of thousands (and my statements are facts, not ignorant fancies) of its sons and daughters, bespeaks stupidity, it not a callousness, that appeals, The illogicality of his confused thinking, which permeates every paragraph, is deserving of the dismissal of his letter with contempt, His attack is upon the National Government of this country; a Government which his own country has recognized for the past ten years and.still recognizes; a Government in respect of whose administration all reputable foreign authority has paid a tribute that no Chinese Government has enjoyed since the decadence of the Manchu Dynasty set in, In that tribute have joined all foreign Chambers of Commerce in China, not excepting the Japanese, leading journals, and representative foreigners from all walks of life.
Space does not permit of the reputation of the many false suggestions carelessly splashed about by Jor Toc Toque. The treatment of a few will demonstrate the justice of my indignation, First, the Government is blamed for having built roads, because the Japanese military are using them! Then follows a totally unfounded suggestion regarding the misuse of airplane funds, Has he] looked up the China Year Book?
There follows a contemptuous reference to Chinese unity and patriotism—at a time when all provinces are furnishing their men for the battle front! The "Reformed Government," which he offers as proof of the absence of national spirit, stinks in the nostrils of every decent Chinese, and.I challenge his assertion that it is composed of "influential" Chinese.
In refutation of his charge that General Chiang caused the war, T would refer him to the self-conviction that has come from the mouths of Japanese Ambassadors Ariyoshi and Kawagoe, Messrs, Arita, Honda, Sato, Yuki, Yoshida, and others, who have clearly indicated Japanese civilian disapproval of Japanese military policy in China.
The letter which I protest is full of: "why this, and why that, and we would like to know." But Jor Toc Toque's ignorance of the answers is no proof that they do not exist. He appears to be of that inconsistent kind that, finding everything decadent in old China, pours scorn upon every honest endeavour of China's modern government to overcome the terrible deadweight of the past.
We have the old story resurrected about the 19th Route Army's designs on the Foreign Settlement. And he would connect their presence here with the abolition of extrality, If the writer was really anxious for the truth, it could be refuted once again (as it has been done several times: your columns), but it is obvious is one of those whom the "N.C.D.N once described as "inveterate di believers" in anything good about Chinese governing circles, His gross discourtesy in referring to General Chiang is matched by his ignorance of Chinese psychology, of which he pretends to have knowledge. It is insufferable that. he should indulge in cheap talk about "multi-billionaires" in connection with General Chiang, Offer your proofs, Joe Toc Toque, or admit that your letter has been penned in ignorant ill-taste.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.