To the Editor of the "Nowtu-Cinxa Dany News"
The tender hearts of your: readers must be daily stirred by the reported sufferings of a few pigs.
'They suffer! Not only do 1 sympathize with them but I admire! them for the reason that they squeal so. loud and hard that people are' listening to them.
On the contrary, like a nord of sheep on their way to the slaughter. house, Importers and Merchants. are waiting and suffering without _a/ word of protest on the following: points 1. "Soldiers of some nation" as you call them, are still hindering _'the deliveries "of goods in Yangtszepoo district, and C'M. Godowns, 2. Nationals of this nation ore' get ting goods without duty.
'3. Under Instruction of these solaters' the customs authorities ure refusing the export of many locally! manufactured goods.
4. Wharves are asking storage on. goods stored in accessible godowns and which could not have been delivered even if wanted.
Bankers are asking full interest on drafts unsettled through hostilities.
6. Shippers are asking exorbitant charges on cargo deviated.
Insurance companies are refusing to consider that all such charges due to war should be covered by! their war clause Dealers are calling upon force majeure clauses to refuse participate {ng in all such additional charges.
'And the poor fellow, importer merchant, squeezed by everyone, hi just one thing to do; die quickly, without a word, and' very oon he will probably noi even be allowed the privilege of the last scream of the pig.
One or sitea4, Shanghai, Feb. 26.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.