One of our readers to-day appears to us unnecessarily hard on Shanghai in respect of the War Memorial, and we hazard the guess that he has not had much! experience in respect of collecting money for charitable purposes in Shanghai, or we think he would change his opinion. It is true that people do not always respond to general appeals through the newspapers. Shanghai is a busy place and they forget. But even this statement needs great modification. The present editor of the "N.-C. Daily Nows" cannot recall a single instance of appealing for money (and he has done so very often) without immediate and liberal response. He has sent home to St. Dunstan's alone some £21,000, and the annual Xmas collection for ricsha coolies made by this paper amounts to some thousands of dollars. All this without any personal application: When that is made a refusal is almost unknown. We make bold to say that Shanghai is the easiest place in the world in which tu collect money. As regards the War Memorial, as we related last week, the scheme has been delayed by engineering and other difficulties at the spot naturally selected for its erection, the junction of French and International—bunds. But these are in a fair way to being settled. More than half the requisite money has come in, not counting the Race Club's $7,000 announced yesterday. There can be no doubt of the rest being subseribed when called for.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.