To the Editor of the *NonmH-China Dany News."
Sm,—May I encroach on your esteemed paper, to call upon my fellow tax-payers for the purpose of demanding adequate protection.
Why do we have approximately 20,000 men, foreign soldiers, in the Settlement? To protect the Settlement I understand. But against whom? The Chinese? Hardly necessary to have 20,000 men for that.
Now it seems that the other party in this war is bent on deliberately making the Settlement unsafe, as two bombings within 10 days and the deliberate machine-gunning on Keswick Road this afternoon proves.
I as a taxpayer demand adequate protection against such incidents, Such protection is not obtained by diplomatic scrap-papers, but by action, Let the defence forces place sufficient anti-aircraft guns along the boundary lines and any aeroplane, whether Japanese or Chinese, which comes within 1000 feet of the perpendicular of the boundary is to be shot down.
But, of course, one can hardly expect that our protector Powers will act otherwise but write tons of diplomatic notes.
Hoping that other residents and tax-payers will endorse my demand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.