To the Editor of the "Nomr-CHINA Dany News"
Sm,—I am shamefully ignorant of much that has gone on in this conflict between China and Japan, but Mr. Tonan will have to stick to this Opinion regarding trade on the Yangtze instead of exclaiming with doubled fists, "The neutrals remained neutral and did not punch Chiang Kai-shek in the nose."
I, as one neutral think that the Chinese can be forgiven for rightfully constructing booms to check a wrongful and illegal occupation of their territory by a foe, but can one forgive the Japanese for causing their construction?
In the past, before the ho: E neutral traders traded peacefully until the interruption, and as Mr. Tonax considers the removal of this interruption as a sort of favour, I feel that it is not so, for the booms are just as good as existent until neutral ships are permitted to trade on the Yangtze without annoyance as formerly, or is Towaw, merely suggesting that the Japanese are even afraid of foreign commercial competition?
SEPARATED, Shanghai, Nov. 21.
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