of the paper only, with double spae sents dnd arguments of the outhers ig, Daly Netea" "Correspondents dcarng the Editor are required to esciose's ceptance or Teh jection "of letters ts Solely fciston' te final, and who wilt entey Fine on Jewry: their Ability to Pay "Mi g-cuona Dany News"
the BAitor of the ssu-t_wonder if your readers jove Feally grasped te significance ii'yhe news published in the papers Wigay to the effect that there are over way wish millionaires in Austria, dpwhom 27 are multi-millionaires, further that there are over 1,200 fens in Austria with capitals' of Tom Marks 200,000 t0 1,000,000 and that the average capital of the total Jan population of Austria, Some 4,000 families, amounts "10 jun Marks per family.
if anybody can tell "me of any reco! community anywhere else in ie. world which has an_average mij of MA0,000 (or Shanghat Sius0i0) per family, T should be lad to hear of it, fine imposed on the Jews in stems to me that the paying of
Remy should not prove very Geral after al, especially as those uns "who possess ess thu M5000 ier ghanghal $12,800) "are nat Able to pay any art of this fu sitSposrently tore are. very few only." possess as. Tite "as $8200 considering 'What the average Austria $125,000 per family. ther sive' one to think, doesn't it?
Shanghai, Nov. 29, Figures and 'Thinking' the Editor vf the "Nonrt-Cunwa Dani News'
Sin—Your correspondent, H.H., raving rend some figures' nent Javish wealth in Vienna seems sleaved and surprised to find that it yakes him think." T suggest, how wer, that as this is his first effort that line of activity, it might be well {f he were to practise a bit tore before announcing his results to. he public. May I use your columns suggest a few lines of thought to 1M, Just for a start, as it were? step mate, te total wi a of Beanie ey Gave neither sew nor Nazi, nor even 2 tea, toon ult 0 ace Minded! toxtandmition' di 9 Witt modvesihtoke Sok 8
9 Mui Gerona tal adi hea toneticd "of pity "thousand dollars CHUO att ie tad loiter appears in more than one local Paper, it does, in his own words, Hive One to think, doesn't it? fails to mention that the figures on Which he bases his contention were transmitted by Transocean, a German, News Agency, and I for one, am Inclined 0 take that message as downright propaganda. Every fair-minded reader must remember that Germany has its Ministry of Propaganda, and tone cannot forget the fact "that Hitler's "Mein Kampf" stresses the value of propaganda at any cost, even at the sacrifice of truth, Un: fortunately, the general reader is not in a position to verity the accuracy of the Mgures and that drawback is what the propagandists bank upon.
Apart from this, it Is one thing to Put a value on an asset and another thing to realize it, Jews forced to Uiquidate have to accept whatever is offered and in this they have to rely fon the tender mercies of their oppressors. A Jew would consider himself lucky' if his forced sales were to net him a cripplingly small percentage of the value of his holdings, and it is out of this that he must pay his "fine."
Of course, as obviously the German Government is out to acquire Jewish wealth whatever it is, it would presumably not overstep the Jewish capacity to pay. But is this any reason why H. H, should treat the imposition with such naive complaconey? Has he no word to say garding the unjustifiable monstrosity of the "fine?
Jusrice.
Shanghai, Nov. 30.
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