To the Editor of the *"NosrH-CHINA Dany News"
Sm—I have to write to you once more about the theft of cotton wool are. any tax scheme adopted would at all times be absolutely voluntary and no pressure of any type whatsoever "p be und from the inception scheme until its conclusion.
The scheme would also achieve the intangible but none the less vital object of a mobilization on the widest possible scale of the voluntary co-Operation of every British subject in and would contribute to an Tit among us which if today ex-stent is at least insufficiently t may be desirable for British "Government to introduce legislation" compulsorily enforcing generations pa bt Naan taxation' subjects in China. death struggle n wh n engaged, I we that such a step on the part British Government should be welcomed. i from the trucks passing along Avenue Edward VII and the Bund, and I wish to say that I think it is very disgraceful that the police don't do something about this. It is surely getting to be a racket, as the thieves are operating under the noses of the Police and in open defiance of the truck drivers who try to beat them off with bamboos, It is a pity that the two police forces do not cooperate instead of passing the buck as they are now doing, I would like to know what the foreign personnel of the S.M.P. are about, because it seems they are conspicuous by their absence, The Chinese policemen are indifferent about everything I also would like to say something too about the vegetable market which is now extending along Avenue Foch and obstructing through traffic ai the intersection of Chungking Road, This is on the Settlement side of the aforementioned road, naturally.
0. C, H, Shanghai, June 7.
Such compi g the initiative immediately to voluntarily to n ives taxation for the raising of funds to assist Britain's war objects.
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