The Archive · 1938

Shanghai Citizens Association

oom 45-24 The Bund Shanghai, Feb. 2. Sis, This Association fs im receipt application for removal "of foods esicemed fern irom" the Con ice to discuss the matter exgensumers were frequently cirlarized by letters, Pamphlets, ote. fall in Chinese, and on representa: tions made at the dirty, smelly effec jin North Szechuen Road, that asa number of the consumers were for-feigners, a translation of these orders, advices and inhibitions was ads visable, one was informed with a contemptuous grin that the outdo was "a Chinese Government affair jand that no change in procedure could be made."

This latter fact, if fact it be, leads Jone furiously to think and imagination boggles at the spectacle pro-sented: The government of Ching /"diddling" depositors out of their money, money demanded in the first instance to ensure that the consumer did not "diddle" it!

Similarly with the water deposit; Jati-in-all the company demanded [from and received approximately [$50 from the writer who wonders it is quite "gone beyond recall"

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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