To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cittna Datty New!
Sm—Shanghai falke will be Inter ested to read of all the fuss and flurry In Tokyo with regard terrorism 2n Shanghai, and the suggestion that force should be used in the "foreign-controlled arcas of Shanighal" 0 curb the present wave terrorism.
Tt Is quite obvious that, through~ out the whole of the Sino-Japanese hhostilites, the Japanese public has been purposely and assiduously misled with regard to events in China.
Japanese correspondents in Shang-hal, for Instance, have been respons thie for sending to their papers at homo such utter and complete "tripe" asa report that "10,000 British troops have landed in Shanghai."
This report was recently dispatch~ ed by the Shanghai correspondent of a well-known and influential Japanese paper, and indicates the "plige" that Is being sent over to Tokyo from here, in the full know edge that it is "bilge," and with, every Intention of misleading the Japanese people.
And so we have the subject of terrorism in Shanghai mistepre~ sented also for the benefit of the fullible Japanese public.
Apparently it has been made appear that the Japanese in Shang hal bear no responsibility, for the wave of terrorism in the "foreign-controlled areas.
actual fact, of course, they bear equal responsibility with the British and Americans,. the other foreign communities represented on the Shanghai Municipal Council.
The Council contains, 1. believe, two Japanese members—how can the Japanese lay the blame exclisively on the shoulders of the other foreigners represented on the Council, as they evidently desire 10 do?
Police—the organization which And take the Shanghai "Municipal doing sterling work in. attempt to deal with a most diMeult situ ton.
Ave not the Japanese well repre. the Police SMP. who bear cqual_ responsibil for ming law and order in ity with high British police" emeers
the Settlement?
One point is here extremely relevant—the really nasty. Jobs the police are all being handled by British and other members of the foree—and not by Japanese.
T refer to the patrolling of outside roads In the Bubbling Well District, lose to roads under the alleged "contro!" of the Japanese-sponsored City Government, and (o. badlands which have grown up directly under that Government's auspices.
The Japanese make continued pro-toats with regard to terrorism, when they fail utterly and completely to do, their, share to stop it, leaving all the dirty: work to other people.
T might as well say what everyone Is. saying—what would happen It we fumed over the policing of the Settlement exclusively to the Japan~ ese? Could they do any better? The answer, judging by their brilltant efforts ollt west, is emphatically No one can accuse the Council of fostering terrorism In the Settlement but an extremely "dubious situa tion exists in the Japaneseacontrolled aren out west, which looks fay if the Japanese are deliberately encouraging the disgraceful state of ffatrs in that district, The Japanese had better look out "looks as if they are to be seri ously embarrassed both by continu Publicity, questioning at the Japan ese press" conferences, and other means, over this question of the Shanghai badlands, and the Japenese role In Shanghai terrorism.
Decent people do not like the stink which has been aroused by the situation out west, even if they are in no way responsible for it, fand it Is not likely that they will allowed to forget about it, even if they fect inclined to do so.
The Japanese certainly have ne case whatever against the Shanghai Municipal Police, whose integrity is ttle realized or recognized by any save those who know It Intimately—of whom I happen to be one, And while we are on the subject of terrorism, Shanghai is unlikely 10 forget what happened on a certain anniversary last year, when certain Japanese officers ran amok in the Selflement—nor certain discoveries by ballistic experts of the Shanghai Municipal Police, which placed the guilt for pro-Jupanese "terrorism: squarely on the shoulders of the Sapanese Army.
No, it~ is about time the Japanese were shown up—and it gratifying to see that the local foreign press, and the Shanghai Munt—cipal Council for that matter, are hot letting Japanese agitators yet away with murder this time, 'Let's hope that this good work will be kept up, and the disappearance of the filth' In the Western Dis trict, "pro-Japanese terrorism, and other abuses which the Japanese themselves are fostering "in this idyllic city, which is certainly pass ing. through halcyon days under Japanese rule, Shanghai, Feb. 21.
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