To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuixa Dany News"
Stn—It may interest some of your readers to know the following facts re obtaining a visa from the Japanese Consulate authorities so proceed to Tsingtao for a holiday.
'My faneée, the unfortunate holder of @ Soviet passport, has one month '2g0 applied for a' visa to go to Tsingtao, a rest prescribed by a local doctor after a serious operation. She was told that the Consulate would ring her up at her residence. One week passed and nobody rang her up. "I went to the Consulate and was old that there had been no. reply received from the headquarters of the Military Landing Party, but that they would ring her up as soon as same would be forthcoming, I at the same time explaining to them the tance of her departure owing to her health. My flaneée has now been to the Consulate again, still the same reply, they would ring her up for send her visa to her Consulate. Meanwhile she feels worse, and we are at a loss what to do? She Knows that other ladies with a Soviet passport have been given visa and Tett for Tsingtao.
Ts there anybody who could advise her of what to do? Is it a crime, the eyes of the Japanese, to be the holder of a Soviet passport? Believe me, she is as much Bolshevik: as Tam, but unfortunate circum= stances have made her the unlucky holder of such a useless passport, and as we are not able to marry at the present moment so that she could get a decent passport, does that mean that, she must suffer inconveniences and lose her health "After all, we are in China, not in. Japan, and she only going to a Chinese port and returning. Do the Japanese' imagine that she isa spy? If so, why not find out, oF ask for someone who will guarantee her?—but to just keep telling her the same thing every time is, to say the least, very impolite—and Tam thinking and hearing that the Japanese are a very polite nation. Well, "you can't believe everything you hear, T hope that my letter will be read by some well-educated and higher-up Japanese Consular official, who then will see the unreasonable delay in giving a lady a visa so that she may Fecover her health.
Shanghai, July 21.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.