To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cuixa Daty News.
Sim—Many foreign residents of Shanghai are of the opinion that 'a quicker and more satisfactory solution of the difficulties arising from the episode of May 30 would have been reached, had the authorities been less supine. An active offensive against everything that threatened the maintenance of authority or the life of the commun. ity would have had other results, that could hardly have been less satisfactory than those we have ities in the state of letting things alone in the hope of something turning up. The difficulties of the scandal of traffic point. Hesitaney to has received from every police officer concerned not only the greatest courtesy and assistance possible, but also an occasional expression regret that they—the—police—(dog lovers, all of them) are hardly in a position to better the lot of the dogs in their charge.
It certainly seems to the writer that the remedy lies with the folks higher up.
Could not a few dollars more per month be allocated here, and give the animals a few more decent meals during their forced stay at the Kennels?
'And could not the 8. M. C. adopt some system of advertising from time to time, so that folks who are fon the look' out for a pet could Know that there are almost always available at the Kennels some kind a specimen of "man's great ral Tam, ete.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.