To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Dairy News."
Simj—At 2,30 o'clock the afternoon of September 15 there was a Chinese lying dead in the gutter in Woochang Road (off Broadway), midway between Miller Road and Woochang Road. I saw this man myself at 2.30 p.
Casting no reflexions on system, throwing no slur, may one ask what. {is this wonderté1 town where this sort of thing (A) happens, (B) is allowed?
Children (Chinese) were playing Jeaptrog over and about the corpse. Flies busied themselves. "I. stood and waited for some time expecting to see the ambulance arrive.
At 8.30 p.m. there was a Chinese' Policeman sitting on a stool 10 yards away, apparently watching. Between 6.30 p.m. and then a poor white cloth was spread over the unfortunate, Again at 10.45, noticed the corpse " lying: in the gutter, a fow poor coolies burning joss paper close by.
But people past—no one knows what the man died from—no one seems to care. Again I ask: just where are we in this wonderful town?
In conclusion, I may here state the fact that I have visited more or less many of the principal sea-Forts all over the world, but I must say that I have never witnessed such sights and acts, as I have seen in our Model Settlement known as Shanghai.
Thanking you for space for this subject, which I submit can do with an inquest.
T am, ete, THomson.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.