To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuwa Dany News"
'Sin your issue dated June 25 you "publish a telegram from Japanese source which reads "A. member of the Tsinan Japanese Residents Corporation and a merchant here was murdered in his bed at 11 o'clock Jast night by four' Chinese bandits."
As this is a gross misstatement of fools and a reflection on the able: Municipal Administration of Tsinan 1 feel that it is only right that your readers should be correctly informed.
Briefly the facts are as follows. The murdered man was a well i known narcotic dealer who had stopped supplies to a Chinese addict as he was unable to pay his outstanding account at the Dragon Boat Festival, the addict being unable to {get his "dope." presumably, became frantic and killed the dealer.
Tt might be argued that the An. thorities here should not permit the peddling of narcotics, but it is a well known fact that the Chinese are quite helpless where Japanese subjects are concerned, 'A Bunorea Reswoenr. Tsinan, June 27,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.