A Commentary To the Heller of the "Nomi-Chai Dasty News" sm—Your leading article oficiis 1 have met in Chekiang fare that they are able and honest men, who would not bea party to Tank Injustice and financial" ramif= cations.
The answer to the second paragraph quoted is:—There is only one thing the Chekiang Government, SinovTopanese situation should com can do and that is to make full resend. attention, No-one can accuse aration to the people who invested Jou of being unable to see both aides money in land" and buildings the question, My only fear is esi Chapoo, or get the place opened to {Tm the desire to avoid' criticism of the public. 'This isthe only way they' can save and maintain their an Understanding which. primarily reputation for being a modern 20th-concerns. two friendly nations, your century Government. Their initia Statement should mislead arties Wit five in road construction and deve-Conpot readily MI in the gape. "Ar lopment of the Chekiang Province T'see It, the Nanking Government would not avail in face of such Iny tightly Tefuses any longer' to. play the Tole of Ajax. defying Tokyo's Tt is impossible to overlook the Mghtning. his implies a form' fact that the Chekiang Auhorities pressure' inconsatent with your surveyed the land at Chapoo arent belle! in the reciprocal. quallcording to the then existing bound Ter of the Sino-Japanese understand tries, they assessed the value of the ing. Can. we really. continue. to Jand'and' recognized the owner in Ignore the fact that. Chinese" polley assession. Then, under threat of being reduced to the simple aqua confiscation, they demand a Tax of tion of Japan's "special interests"—40 per cent. of the assessed value whether in Peiping (nothing must for "which they Issued a receipt bevsald of Charhar and Mongolia, stating that a Title Deed would be Fukien or Shanghai? Tam entirely olivered in with you in emphasizing" Japanese Uimeuites "and the Importance.
Sieserving Britsh friendship with wghal hat the place Sipen as. well. og" China would soon be open to the public, Pet ie seems. to. me That sight in the early: Spring.
being lost of the tact tat Tespect The Miltary have found it neces for the integrity. of China once sary to construct a few "pill boxes Tintin by alt Powerhietding at Chapoo which are only supposed be used in case of aback. There Power negation of that polley japan) is being replaced. bya necessity for secrecy about the hands of Japan who has clearly that kind of fortifeations, and they Femvfated the oFleinal which neve fre certainly only a poor excuse for theless remains valld for her former keeping the Hills closed to the pub-Hic. Mr. Yin says there "are" begfuoelates, All this might not matter ars and vagabonds living in the uch if" the present. developments Tuins of the old fortifications. That Were: not so calmly viewed by our may be, but I can assure him that dwn compatriots who apparently are the new ones would not even tempt either content to take the short view a beggar on a rainy day, they are only for occupation in case of attack, teeing any other, British interests In and they are padlocked when not in China' are. not noaligible. Ought we sot to come out into the open and—Ttpenk an an Boglishman—urge upon throw the hills open. to the public only reasonable course is to our Government. the clear duty" fand reduce the number of soldiers Sureesing. the aims of Japanese occupation to the minimum. This polley "Many with whom Tha would result in prosperity to the Piiked maintain that the ofelal Jap people at Chapoo, the Ferry Service ere view adheres imotieltty if not Across the Whangpoo and the motor= rxplleltly tothe *hfenroe" pronounce: car licence offices, "not to. mention iment of last. April. There is, no feed. to. be "hot and bothered" it the. appreciation sich "action "would meet with in Shanghai. Chapoo is That is a correct deduction, but the only place near Shanghai which Toast It should be possible to avoid can be developed as a seaside resort. the hum'llating folly of pretending Of course, it does not compare with {ove ostriches: 1-am tah. suplel-'Teingtao or Japan, still it will do fne of the type of argument which for week-ends; and for the poorer {site that events. must be allowed Shanghai people who cannot afford prove the accuracy of assumptions travelling to Japan' or Tsing'ao It Sich as any reasonable man would would be a" substitute which it ake on the bats of facts ay they would Se unkind to deny them. fe, That is hardly tess fatuous, than the frequently heard. remark "To Shanghai, Feb, 26, think Japan will go. 0. far Since: Sentember, 1081, That specious Another View flea for burying hends inthe sand foe" dominated the situation, Tt has had to yield. pace only" to the fan Editor of the tle comicalities of Japanese apology fonru-Cuia Dany News" la who have taken advantage of Sm—I have read with Interest r2- conspiracy of silence to resurrect cent correspondence in your esteem. paper on Chapoo "Realities," foffelal Japanese spokesmen have should it be "Realties," but feel that Tong abandoned. T do not for on some comment is necessary on Mr. moment suggest encouragement of 'Yin's letter headed "A." Common any coercion of Japan or hostility to which refutes the suggestion' her natural desire' to exist. T only Chekiang Provincial Auplead—In all meckness—for a plain are in any way to blame ecoxnition of fads as they are and and hints at truths behind the truth adjustment of our plans accordingly. and facts which cannot be ignored. You, Sir, for example, might in-Surely the fact which cannot be oleate: your own view of the proper ignored commences with the Noti-policy of Great Britain in the present AMcation issued by the Chekiang Pro-circumstances. Certainly it seems vineial Authorities on April 6, 1994. necessary to resist the suggestion and signed by Wang Chiang-yuen, that China cannot have direct acclaiming the beaches and hills around] cess to foreign assistance (including Chapoo in the Pinghu District as without the coun-Government property, that existing lure of Japan, What do you titles were invalid but that occupiers would be issued with Title Deeds provided a tax amounting 10 40 per Feb. 26 cent. on, assessment made by the coomment on page 968 Provincial Survey Ofice was paid by June 15. Failure to comply would result in "re-occupation" and resale] of the land by the Authorities after
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