To the Editor of the "Nomtm-Cama Dany News"
Sm—Apropos of the suggestion mooted in to-day's "North China," that the British organize an extensive propaganda against Bolshevism in China. Might I be allowed to direct especial notice to the small relat to the tragic and appalling death a child in one of the Shanghai mills.
Tt seems to me where conditions are such that ghastly accidents (2) like" that mentioned can happen, then little hope to try and. stem the tide of Bolshevism. To the probably ignorant and uneducated mother of that child, wi ing but her primiti. go by, can she be blamed for welcoming a state where she is promisced something far different to. the nly desperate one she now knows. If abe thinks or is capable of think: ing surely, she must see red, very red, and would welcome anything that would revenge such a death to her child.
As a British mother might I ap-Peal to the mothers of the British Women's Astociation to make. it their propaganda against' Bolshevism, the alleviation of the appalling conditions under which children work in our mills?
How many of the said mothers, I wonder, have ever paid a visit, need not be unexpectedly, to any of the mills in China. The memory of one such visit will be a nightmare to me as long as I live, Tiny baby hands, hardly able to reach to the spindle to tie the broken cotton, white wan faces of undersized children all having lungs choked with air thickly impregnated with cotton dust. Their little bodies erying out for rest and sleep, like the unhappy mite who met such a death. "That craving for sleep which strongest" have felt tempted to lie down anywhere Just so long as the craving be isted. How could a child be blamed, lying down no doubt where she knew she would not be seen, 1 Fey progress through thet mill accidently something at my feet and on looking down, to my horror, I discover it was a two-month old baby in a basket whose mother was working near by. Fortunately I had kicked the basket to the opposite side to the machinery, otherwise I might have had a grimmer tale to relate.
My object in writing is-to appeal to the thinking practical Brit-
A Basi Morms.
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