The Archive · 1925

Not for Ladies

In conclusion I would give this advice to all, that the Siberia route not yet g20d enough for women and children, especially when. not Accompanied" bya. man, From Shanguai, the changes at Dairen, Changchun, Harbin, Manchoali Chita, Moscow, and atter, make the Journey nothing: but. a worry from beginning to end, and unless one is pressed for time'it is not scarth To there going home on leave and in' need of holiday, T would say, j@> via Canada or tio Suez, where You can have comfort and rest, do of have to worry. over tickets plate-cartes, passports, currency find constant changes of trainy an doubts 22 to whether you will ge through, ete, and where you. have the daily pleasure of goad service, food, and accommodation, and your ox kind of folk for foviety. When the Wagons-Lits} Company are" able to conclude arrangements with the Soviet Government so that through care can run from Changchun to. Mose 'a before the war, and fon unsurpassed servic tol relict upon, then all. may travel again vie Siberia without worry. Bat the time L mre thing—the permanent and}

Jof the foreign papers' here have licen suppressed for reason known Jonly, to. the editors concerned.

As to fairplay which sounds very sweet to us, the writer have to say that while foreign prepared hand bills stating the British views late freely distributed and posted within the "Settlement, Chinese jcireulars and hand bills' likewise Istating the Chinese views have not been allowed to be distributed and Posted within the Settlement. Those who dare to distributed and post are at their own risk and not a few ave been arrested and sent to gaol for doing just what the Municipal Council has been doing within the Settlement. To borrow your phrase, this is the Chinese conception of the British so-called fairplay.

There are in Shanghai not tack of scholars of Chinese. Why Jnot some of them write to some papers some Chinese papers in Shanghai would bbe too glad to do like you do, In words, corre pon lence lama of the C papers. is anon to ays and {fczevpners who have views to ex: press.

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