To the Editor of the "Norm-Cmixa Dany News"
Si-—Your leading article regarding the acute rice situation and the ameful manipulation and hoarding of the rice market will be welcome by everybody.
Unfortunately nothing is done in that respect as well as concerning the many other problems which confront us, by those who are responsible for the welfare of this City and its four million inhabitants, Furthermore, what can be expected when we read Inthe very columns of the N.CDN., under the heading Coal Hongs Fined by District Court that Judge 7. Sze of the First Special District Court fined six owners. of Jarge coal hones, charged with pro-
dollars"
Steering. "from! ten to fourteen We are also informed that So And So's coal hong Wuting Road, has been fined the tremendous amount of $12, that an other So And So, proprietor of the Whatnot Coal Company, Ferry Road will be positively ruined as he is ordered te pay a fine of... $10!
What kind of joke is this and how Jong are we going to tolerate such kind of mystification Would it not be infinitely simpler if the SAC. or the FMC, withdrew their licences for a certain period from such sharks? "And if" they don't... why don't they BYAUXION DE Rurrr.
Shanghai, Oct. 8
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.