To the Editor of the "Nonrt-Cutxa Dat News"
1 worwler if you, or any of readers,.can inform me which [junk company has the contract. for bringing the Air Mail from England fon, to Shanghai, after it is landed in Hongkong.
My last Jetier took nine days to come from the Isle of Fragrance, and the one before that seven days.
Such up-to-the-minute service should not' go on day after day (or should "it be week after week?) without due appreciation from those who derive the benefits of this mar= vellous combination of speed "and Shanghai, Feb, 26, Jand her people be exposed to yet more misery. Ultimately pence will have to be made, and whenever it is made Japanese sincerity will have to be trusted, though, if Mu. Henay Waxe has his way, it will not be a question of trusting Japanese sine cerity, but of relying on Japanese jelemeney.
Only in one part of his letter doos Jain. Hexay Wase come near the truth.
resent Sino-Japanese hosttlihie says, "cause tremendous Joss to all merchants and. business men irrespective of their nationalities." He would have done well to consider also Jwhat hag happened to the humbler: nasses. "Facts," he remarks. "speak feuder than words® They: surely do, but what is the lesson he draws from them? Not that the time has come put an end to all this misery, loss and destruction, but that it should be con= tinued and intensified by persisting ina losing war of resistance. Again fie says that the interests of thivel Party nationals are in jeopardy, but how would he preserve them? By a continuation of the very. Slate. of affairs which Jeopardizes tem, namely war and the domination of large Jareas of China by the Japanese mille T would commend to Mu Henny Wane's notice the words of Benjamin Franklin, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Certainly in the present instance peace is in the interests of everybody, while war serves only the aims of the Communists and their "puppet," General Chiang Kalshek, Shanghai,. Feb,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.