One member of the Shanghai 'Municipal' Police is smarting under jan unmerited rebuke. His beat. along the waterfront, and during the lyeers he has been there he has acquired an almost uncanny instinct for spotting intending suicides. On [Sunday evening the actions of a foreign woman on one of the jetties roused his suspicions and he moved fon to the jetty and spoke to. her. [She told him a story of quarrels in ther home and marital unhappiness, [then accepted his advice to go away from the river edge. Just as they were walking off the pontoon, how-fever, she changed her mind and made a dash for the water. The gallant policeman reached her just in time and pulled her out before she had got more than her legs wet. The woman struggled to free herself from his grip end he was forced to jara her backwards away from the pontoon and place her by main strength in a rickshaw where she tears. After having per-feat of heroism in the heat, the policeman was just about fo accompany the woman to the [police station when he was approached by "another foreign woman Who had apparently witnessed only the fast scene of the drama. She gave him a good dressing down for his "brutality" in so treating a woman, She threatened to report him to the Municipal Council.. She took his number in order to write to the newspaper about him. All this the policeman took with' good humour and when his critic eventually jeeased her flood of abuse, told her why he had acted as he had. 6he then changed her tune. She was sorry. But that did not alter the fret that she had given the police Jman a bad Ave minutes for" what, after all, was an act of humanity on his part.
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