The Archive · 1920

An Appropriate War Memorial

To the Editor of the "Nonu-Cuixa Datty News."

Sin,—As nearly everybody says so, I suppose it must be admitted that the Shanghai community is sadly lacking in public spirit. Yet T doubt if the suggestion to found a public school out here on the lines of Rugby or Marlborough as a war memorial was turned down by the Committee so much because they were indifferent to that or any other scheme, as because of its inherent financial and social difficulties.

But I am sure there are many in Shanghai who are inclined to agree with some of your correspondents that a war memorial would best serve its purpose if it were a perpetual reminder to English school children in China of the tremendous price which England

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