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This journal would be failing in its duty to]... Shanghai if it did not register the most emphatic protest possible. The matter concerns practically every neutral in Shanghai, as well as the Japanese themselves, and may be expected to have serious repercussions upon the fortunes of this great city. The organized spoliation of the areas in question must of necessity have a direct bearing upon the trade which has brought the foreign community to these shores, for without a prosperous Chinese community that trade would be impossible. The sterilization of these industrial districts will have a profound effect upon the future revenue of the municipality. And so it follows that not only are the interests of unoffending Chinese being damaged, but those foreign interests, the scrupulous respect for which has been so often promised, are being damaged to an extent which it is at present impossible to estimate. Let there be no mistake about it; it is not only mere scrap that is being re-!to moved from Wayside and Yangtszepoo; Chinese installations of machinery are being dismantled for export to Japan. The wherewithal for ultimate rehabilitation is being taken away, and when the Chinese are allowed ultimately to return to these areas of desolation they will find themselves faced with the gaz enormous task of building their undertakings from the bare ground up again. There can be none of that failure to understand the Japanese in this manner. The facts speak for themselves, and Shanghai is entitled to ask the question with which this article is headed. What is the purpose of stripping these areas of Shanghai of all that is necessary for a portion of the rehabilitation of this port, unless it is an endeavour permanently to disable it? It may be argued that it is a form of reprisals for what was done to Japanese concerns in Tsingtao. What was done there this journal just as emphatically reprobated, and the considerations which applied in that instance just as closely apply in this, So much has already been done toward reducing these districts to mere skeletons of their original industrial proportions that considerable disaster has already been wrought. It is to be hoped that even now the Japanese authorities will hold their hands, for it must be apparent to them that a prosperous Shanghai is just essential for them as it is for those Chinese, and foreign interests which are being placed in such grave peril by a perfectly incompresensible procedure.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.