To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Cwka Dany News"
Sm—According to the Japanese Naval Spokesman (vide North China nected with the direction of war, as Daily News, October 9) the objective the object of bombing is the destruction of the establishments and of the Japanese Bombers on Wednes-most vital necessary to the investor. The roads have been built under full legal right of Article VI of the Land regulations, which provides that Article 86 ton And this expansion commenced well over twenty years ago when negotiations for the incorporation of such areas enclosed by these roads—then crossing no Chinese built ones—under definite Council jurisdiction, could well have been opened and brought to a satisfactory conclusion io the benefit of both parties. The "muddling". policy was preferred, however, and to-day we see an are: almost as large as the entire Settlement itself, bounded by Municipal roads without" a Municipal status. Investments meanwhile, actuated by these Settlement roads—and doubtless through the presumption of equal Settlement protection—have poured into the district, and run into no small figure. But what do these face to-day? Indeed, what does anything beyond Hollyheath face? Not a happy one.
And, after all, was not the excuse for plunging this city into the inferno in which it is now suffering, caused by nothing less than an "incident" on a Settlement road on which the Settlement had ceased to exercise its authority? 1 said, in a letter to your good self, as far back as August 10, that "something would have to be done, and quickly, to prevent this vast area ultimately becoming another Chapei or Tientsin." I fear we are seeing the beginning of that now.
Too Larè
Shanghai, Oct. 8.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.