To ihe Editor of the "Mobrh-Chixn Dany News"
Sim,—I am genuinely distressed by the letter of Jor Toc Toque and "wonder that anybody professing to be neutral third party can honestly thirk like he does. However I taxe comfort in noting that the views of the preponderant majority of the foreign community, including that of your excellent journal, are of an entirely different tenor, The said correspondent has admitted that he found Chinese incomprehensible. This remark 15 a frank admission that he does not heve quite a clear understanding of things Chinese and consequently I think his views are based on a misconception and would suggest that it be taken in that light.
Said correspondent blamed the Chinese Government for its disability to amass sufficient quantity of military paraphernalia to meet Japanese forces of arms on even terms and jus-tities the Japanese military for their invasion of China on account of their winning streak, In homely, language he believes in the idea that if the other fellow can lick you, he has a perfect legal right to do it and even to annex anything belonging to you that catches his fancy, en the Japanese themselves do not openly subscribe to this dangerous conception which is contrary to the accepted doctrine on which our social structure is built upon, for as an eyewash the Japanese have resorted to the creation of puppet organizations in Changchun Peiping and Nanking, instead of outright annexation of seized territories.
The fact that some Chinese have joined these organizations does not mean that such institutions are popular or that there is no cohesion amongst the Chinese people. There is no nation or people that is without its due quota of renegades. Even some men of letters are not beyond writing to further an obviously un-
siderations. The Chinese traitors be-worthy cause out of monetary con-trayed their country because it pays them to do so and not because they entertain any love for the several puppet regimes or for the Japanese manipulators behind such. outfits.
As to his remarks against the new life movement and kindred efforts as Chinese hypocrisies I presume he finds the Japanese profession that they are bombing and maiming Chinese civilians out of love as more sincere, I am sorry that such sincere friendship is not accorded to his country, where it would be appre-eluted, instead of being extended to my unappreciative country, Ts he sincere in the belief that the 19th Route Army was transferred to Shanghai area with the idea to seize ihe foreign-controlled areas or as a coercive in the abolition of extrality? If such was indeed the case then the several foreign commands have indeed been very ungallant as to leave the onerous task of the So you see, Actions Speak BETTER Tuan Warns, I fully concur with you. Admittedly, writing to the press does not help our friend at all, but there was the one chance in a million that the "gentleman" concerned might see the letter and, in doing so, have his conscience pricked and perhaps correct his future behaviour.
Your last phrase, "and besides gentlemen are born—not made", Seems rather irrelevant. It is going a little too far to suggest that only a gentleman would have paid the coolie, although, of course, your definition of a gentleman may differ from mine.
Drscusrep Brita.
Shanghai, June 17.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.