To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuiva Dairy News."
Sir,—Many will be pleased to see that a weekly contemporary of yours has commented strongly on the question of Shanghai's © War Memorial to those who gave up their lives in the Great War. A well known globe-trotter passing through Shanghai last week asked to be shown our cenotaph and could hardly believe that we had not already erected one or even made a start on it. It is unbelievable that a city of the size of Shanghai with so much wealth made during the war and with so many Allies here should be so apathetic over what every man, woman and child should have contributed something to according to their means. It was only quite lately that many of us were pre sent at the laying of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank foundation stone and heard, or read in the paper next day. very "grandiose" words, but there were many in Shanghai who had been very much nearer the war than here or Hongkong and knew how at one period of the war the result was "touch and go," when every man who rushed to the cause from Shanghai and elsewhere counted and helped the Allies at their most critical moment to stem the tide over each other's bodies.
God help us if we could not have held on and the result had been different; there would have been no foundation-stone laying, except possibly by a Hun Minister and it. Figge as manager, and all those kood dollars you made during the war would most certainly have been confiscated. As a Frenchman told me the other day, the whole thing led without permission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.