To the Editor of the "Nonru-Dama Dany News"
Sm—As a reader of the: local Japanese press I am sometimes surprised at the discoveries my hobby Produces. You occasionally give translated extracts but I am sure that your readers who do not share my Knowledge of Japanese would be interested in the Shanghai "Mainichi's" comments on Sir Frederick Lelth-
Ross. That estimable newspaper Sunday, in explaining to its readers the authority "possessed by Sir Frederick, declared that the nature of his mission was "ostensibly" to stabilize our currency by adjusting the dollar-sterling position and so to ascertain whether an international or British loan could be made to China. Tt went on, however, to assert that [his real mission was to further British interests by cultivating Chinese goodwill. So far so good, but the "Mainichi" has more. Ty discerns waning of British influence. It considers that the British Empire is breaking up and that Great Britain longer esteemed by other nations, The industrial progress made by Japan, according to. the "Mainichi" and the Pan-Asian policy of Tokyo seriously diminished British export trade from 1930 onwards.
Then it may be well to give a more extended translation of the "Mainich''s" comments:
Subsequently Great Britain started an economic war against Japan and tired ing diplomatic pressure to bear on Japan and United States of America, defeat, Great Britain must ask peace of Japan. By cooperation with Japan hopes to maintain her influence you Policy suainst Japan. To secure the Balance of European powers she has Trance, Chinas that 1s het second error.
After reading this T am unable to decide whether my country is about to vanish off the face of the earth or whether it is to continue to flourish asa bay tree like the desperately Shanghai, Sept. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.