To the Editor of the "Mokrh-Cuxn Dany News"
Sim—We pay for house electricity water and gas, because, we.receive "hei just as before the mess—but why should we pay the taxes? Our homes, if not burnt down, have been Jooted and smashed during the time guns kept us aw and the S.M.C. could not and cannot do anything in the matter. We have no municipal xiékshaws, no trams, no buses, no attention from the Health Office.
Some municipal street-sweepers or Joafers walk along the streets. Most Of the filth they care to pick up they throw on the ruins. No kind of Supervision is seen anywhere No municipal police patrol ofr bei Mme, some Hindus direct the traffic at some busy street corners, but they hothing much to say. Most of vehicles have no numbers and s they please. Once I big truck approach eet. The had been instantly "Wbéfe he stood, had he not at the Jast moment rushed to the side-walk.
Mo "municipal remarks" were made dri the book.
Much more could be added to the Bist, which shows how little, if any Yit, is left of ill that the former S.M.C. regime gave u Ju: think of the Garden Bridge, the only gate left for us, the Japane soldier rushing against us with their gun: ahead and (N.B.) our homes plastered with the notices: "This house is under the protection of the Japanese Landing Party" (Not."of the S.M.C". Why should we pay taxes to the S.M.C. for our houses on the other side of the Creek? "The SMC. is not a charity institution. and if it is, we have no monies for the charities, we need charity ourselves.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.