To the Editor of the "Norrn-Cmxa Dany News"
Sm,—Relieble foreign eyewitnesses report that Chinese troops are in occupation of foreign residences on jao Road, are looting, breaking Swn doors, and wantonly destroying what they cannot remove or-use.
This is not the action of troops in a disorderly retreat or in the flush of a successful advance: the troops are ly under discipline, and must be acting under the orders of their officers and with their full cognisance, The foreign powers are expressing 4 their sympathies with the Chinese. whilst foreign nationals in Shanghai are being treated by the Chinese with such scant consideration, Surely all that is necessary is for this to come before the notice of some prominent and sensible official "of the Chinese Government for im-"mediate redress to be made: for the soldiers to be ordered out, the officers "responsible. to be reprimanded, and "apologies and reparation made to the ign owners of the property.
The first lot of Chinese soldiers ioned in the Hungjao area were 'a fine body of men, and a credit to the rising reputation of the Chinese y. But the present lot are be-like vandals, and the Chinese of afford to lose any time in esta ing some discipline amongst them. Now that the Chinese forces have withdrawn from Hungjao may 1 suggest that the Japanese authorities allow foreigners to inspect their homes without delay so as to avoid any possibility of the Chinese trying to shift the responsibility for the looting on to the Japanese troops.
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