To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cixa Dany News."
Si—Allow me to support the sentiments expressed by "Nip-it-in" the-bud" in your correspondence columns of to-day, and to give you some of my experiences near the railway crossing at Great Western Road on Saturday, While waiting for a friend who had gone to visit a foreign garden near by, I had parked my car little way up Keswick Road, Bast fof the railway crossing. "While standing beside the car a crowd of about thirty Chinese boys came along the railway track from the East, in company with one of the native "braves" in grey, who carried hhis rifle with bayonet fixed. Thus supported they doubtless thought it was. too good an opportunity to be missed, to gibe at the foreign devil, and they boran shouting "You Doggu," which was probably as near their clocutional powers could get to "You dog." The gallant lad in grey seemed greatly to enjoy this baiting, of an inoffensive, elderly foreigner, who had been paying no attention to them. The bidding sprouts of China's manhood then congregated fon the raised mounds at the railway crossing and continued their revels by throwing sods on to the tops of passing motor-ears, at all events mine received this delicate attention, when [later passed over the track.
Perhaps the celebration of Sun 'Yat-sen's anniversary that day had keyed up even the grown-up natives in their general strafe' of foreigners, for before I left the position in T had parked the car on Keswick Rond, three other Chinese soldiers with fixed bayonets passed, walking towards Fahwah Road, one of them taking occasion to look menacingly and jeer, saying something which T did not understand, Is it not about time that such imrenee was put an end to?
Those rascals, offensively armed to the teeth as they are, serve no useful purpose, Instead of being of use to those dwelling in the vicinity, they constitute a distinct menace, and they form such a sorry contrast to the British soldiers who were stationed at that same point for many months.
Another sign of the times is the recent establishment of a native military station on Hungjao Roa next door to the Boy Scouts' headquarters at Millington Camp. Are our foreign authorities alive to the threat to our peaceful residence that all this military' activity entails? Tam, ete, Avent.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.