To the Editor of the "Nonrit-Cuixa Day News!
SmI was greatly stunned reading your today's editorial on "An recommended the sur records of the Chinese Land Office deposited with the Shanghai Municipal Council by Mayor 0. K, Vu (not Mayor Wu Teh Chen) to Fu Siao-en. "You have the good luck to believe that "during the past year and three quarters conditions have! improved to such a degree that it can be said without fear of contradiction the situation is as normal as can reasonably be expected." I wonder whether many other people, Chinese or foreign, can share your belief.
The Shanghai Municipal Councit accepted the records for safe custody behalf of the Chinese Government, and to hand the records to any but the legal Chinese Government would constitute a serious betrayal of trust, Your people have scathingly attacked the capitulation. of Great Britain's lies, which must "have gravely fected "Britain's interest. Such a capitulation on the part of the Shang-hal Municipal Counéit in the event of their agreeing to hand over the records to Fu Siao-en would be a minor capitulation, but just the same it would be as abject a surrender. Ata time like this the Chinese people are not alone in wishing their British friends to have learnt the painful lesson that appeasement does not save one's skin.
Shanghai, June 28, A, PI Sux.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.