Not so many years ago "Little" jsu was one of the noted general China. This seems to be all that! ye has had occasion and nobody worries about the fact that subsequently he was a regular firebrand who for the good of everybody concerned found it needful to disap the arena of active polities. course the less that have to do with polities the better, which is not only true of Western countries but applies with the great-jest, possible force to China, where unfortunately they are the leading politicians, However, his former Position is probably enough justification for the Home authorities re-erding him only from the military standpoint and thus treating him te a demonstration of that triumph of British engineering, the tank. Little" Hsu, it may well be imagined, is at his best when it comes to seeing the sort of job these engines are capable of, for he himself has essayed to put the motor at the service of his army, Half a dozen years ago or so undertook an invasion of Mongolia by means of motor transport, but many things went wrong on the way jand his expedition returned without having approached near to its objective, and left most of the motor transport derelict behind it. In employing this motor transport he certainly showed the imagination necessary to be a suecessfal modern soldier, but failed to take into acjeount the possibilities of the case, To a man of his calibre, the tank demonstration may prove rather a dangerous sort of thing, for, impressed as he must be by them, all is inclinations will be in the direetion of supplying himself with this The Vain Application lady signing herself "Fairplay"
written us a very long letter, the gist of which is that women with husbands to support them and girls who have money enough to. live upon ought not to be allowed to take employment and thereby, a it seems to her, to defraud those who must depend on their work to ive. The writer has some particular case in mind and as Shanghai is still comparatively a small' place, and we are not in a position to judge the rights and wrongs of this particular instance, we prefer not to print her letter in full. The question she raises is a very jeult one, which has often been the cause of much controversy in other places besides Shanghai. It certainly does seem hard that while there ars so many people who absolutely need money, those who need not work should get into billets te keep the others out. Against this} it would be quite impossible to lay down a hard and fast rule as regards applicants for employment, fol Whilst, from the point of view of employers, it would be rather bad
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