'A Tax-payer's Queries To the Editor of the "Nowru-Cuiwa Dany News"
'Sm—Much has been reported' and commented" and at least two. photographs as I can remember, were retently printed in your' esteemed Journar fy connection with the system matic collection of iron and other metals by the Japanese in the eastern distress. Stilt {cannot understand! what it ist If it ig a robbery, where are the: policemen? Moreover, the robbers cannot be the Japanese; for the Japanese authorities have not only denied the outrages but also assured the Public not long ago by issuing a strong proclamation to their conationals that all illegal action which besmirches the good name of Japan will be punished by the authorities without mercy. In fact, however, we actually see the very Japanese, with the Japanese flag, carrying away the iron and other' metals from. the premises of private enterprises. What is it then?
Again, it happens in the Settlement, Despite whose ownership of the iron and metals, if it belongs to a taxpayer the Municipal Council must of neces sity be responsible to protect. But why don't we hear anything from the Municipal Council? Has the Council tried?
T wonder whether in a case like! that it is impossible for the Muntelpal Council to take any measures, or the Council has already given up that part of the Settlement to the Japanese and ur properties out there are no longer under protection.
A Taxspaven, Shanghai, Feb. 4,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.