To the Editor of the fanti-CuINA DalLy News,"
Sm—The person who is going round with a chip on his shoulder asking for someone to knock It off is bound to mistake sooner or later the gesture of some Innocent passer-by In waving away a particularly annoying fly as an attempt to take up his challenge. In this lies the tragedy.
well as the comedy of the attitude adopted by the Japanese Naval Landing Party towards minor, if unfortunate, occurrences of into. A Chinese boy playing on a root throws a stone at a cat. 'The stone misses the cat but hits a wall bounces off and strikes a Japanese marin Incident! 'The boy' is arrested, taken the nearest police station, and released after a caution. The lad who is being detained until Friday by the police of the Chinese North Szechuen Road Station is less fordunate, According to the Japanese account "of the "incident" - which occurred on Tuesday, the Ind-"in-a playful mood splashed water over a assing patrol' of Japanese blue: He was immediately'
end handed over to the had been taking down an advertising banner which had been hanging outside his shop. The banner excusably—had been saturated with rain, and in the course of removing it there was, not unnaturally, a shower of rain. drops distributed. Some of those drops bespattered the Japanese patrol. Result: another incident. The unfortunate shop assist-fant is being detained by the Chinese authorities "until to-morrow as a Punishment, While no one wishes to detract. from the very pralsewort object of the Japanese Naval Landing Party to prevent the good name of the " Japanese Navy "from being besmirched, there 1s the chance that they may be making themselves look 44 ttle ridiculous when they create "incidents" out of accidents which might happen to anybody. The "incident" of the cat—which, by th way, could not be found—gave Shang-hal 'a chuckle. This unpremeditated showorbath from a saturated advertise hung outside a shop may for another. Ts there not a danger that the other foreign communities in Shanghai "incl who cried" "Wolf, wolf! often?
Shanghai, Aug, 6.
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