That to us should be ascribed the [whole responsibility for the mortal ity from cholera is anything but fair. With a supply of: "well-nigh perfect water" at the disposal of 1 the Settlement resistance this year in the past, what can account for the fact that' the death toll in the Settlement ig also particularly great this year? The cause of the rage of the epidemic cannot be, for ulterior reasons, ascribed to any one cause: no one (will deny that the plague in Chapel as well as in the Settlement is the result, of the working of a great many factors, among which may specifically mentioned the unprecedented heat and the congested habitations of the coolie class and Itheir carelessness in taking food and drinks, the Intter two conditions being' especially prevalent in Chapel, Perhaps we may be allowed to pany. They were also the direct dwell a little upon the plans upon which we shall start in making cause of the financial straits which the company has found itsd substantial improvements, We have as it has been difficult to collect thi purchased a lot of Jand with an share subscriptions. Under these} area of more than 150 mow at circumstance: it is nothing short} Chung Kung Road near Woosung of an uphill tack for this company, for building new waterworks, and to serve the public in the way it it the work of construction actually started last month. We have aho has been doing. purchased machines from aprond Yet all the foregoing difficulties: draw upon the Huangpu River for under which this company has been, our supply in view of the fact that Tabouring are not by any means her' ited as pretexts or excuses for thi ithe Soochow Creek, where we now /nave our intakes, is much polluted inability of the com y to render, by the impure water coming out of the best possible services. On th the mills along its banks, We eve contrary, the company has left no going to lay mains with diameter stone unturned in trying to do all, 36 inches and more than 72 within its power to improve it miles long. All this work can be products, To this we shall return one year and we look farther "on.
Of late when the cholera dications first cropped up, forward with confidence to the day when We shall be in @ position to the corns conscious of its own} render the best services that can be responsibility, again exerted its [expected of an enterprise only efforts in the improvement of its! several years old. water supply, and wishing to profit by the counsel and services of the In conclusion, we wish to say foreign experts connected with th that what we want from the public older and -better financed compan; well as from our foreign friends in the Settlement, which services constructive criticism based upon expects to be rendered in good faith, facts, and not by any means gratui-Tost no time in seeking assistanc:.e tous' rebuke administered on the from foreign engineers as referred: basis of insufficient data, Our mere to in both your leader and article. appli jon for foreign assistance What we wish to emphasize here is|should not be interpreted a that the recent improvement in the failure to do the duty of a quasi-water supply, which you said was due yublie institution, and a fortier to foreign pressure, was Teally made! should not be seized as an oppor-fas a result keen realization of tunity to launch attacks and to drift 'a responsibility demanded by thi ie, to other utterly irrelevant sid occasion and not in deference t slissues, We believe that if there is Jattacks based' upon exaggerated such a thing as Sino-foreign ¢o-statements maliciously made and in' operation at all, it should be 'a carping spi for no other purpose executed in a spirit of mutual than to. throw into discredit an encouragement and constructive and tip to the "Provodniks" or train attendants, but even then the cost compares favourably with the] £100 fare vid Suez and £120 vid Canada—the saving in time speaks for itself. A passport is essential and four visas must be obtained before leaving England, German, Polish, Soviet and Chinese. opens when it likes, charges what likes, and hag a habit of disappearing just when it is most wanted.
If you add to your outfit a pleni tifal" supply of soap and towels (none are provided) ang two large Kettles, which you can fill with bol ing water at every station, it will help you to fight the dirt and dust en the train and arrive..more or arrested on July $1 at Woosung when, the Woosung police raided " Communist base, was tried by the Court the Woosung and Shanghai constabulary on Tuesday and acquitted. Amongst the books and pamphlets seized by the police and ured as evidence against the accused were:—"The New Young Men,"
Problem ofthe Juvenile Workers" organization simply because it is, criticism, and certainly it is unfair Chinese.
Reference was made in your article to our water tanks, saying, that they were cleaned only once in' one or two months. © Thi is wholly. untrue, Formerly our tanks were cleaned once in six cays. At present as the alum dosage has been applied, they are cleaned once in to deal a blow to any attemp* in this direction by means of rabid and vitriolic writings.
We ate, ete., Manager.
Cuarsr Exsoraicrry & WATERWORKS Ca, Lo 'Should you decide to face the journey, you must provide yourself' ers clean at your journey's end. and "The Labourers': Pictorial."
Chapel, Aug. 14, 1926,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.