The Season's Mockery Tou Bulter of the commu-Curxs Dancy News"
SmmA Merry Chrismas and a Happy New Year. We see. those words glaring at us at almost every corner. To a favoured. few, they convey thoughts of Turkey," music: and daneing. But for the less forrue ate—nothine but a mockery.
There - are charitable institutions! you will say? True, and they do luptold judd. But there is a cereal lass of individual wha positively eanmot accept charity. An individual who, perhaps, still has a glimmer of pride." And ho cannot suffer' to stoop any lower. He would prefer 10, Starve than ask for charity. What of) these unfortunate people?"
Day after day, week after week, they trudge from fice to effec. Sometimes they are fortunate, The manager will see them. They enter, expectant, timid, and ask hesitantly whether there isa vacancy. No they are invariably told, there is nothing doing, times are very bad.
'And then we are told "Have a Merry Christmas" Sul, I optimist. 1 suppose that' is all in the fame of life. But what' tough game it is.
Shanghai, Dee. 24. periciour country that 3 in frieion.
The second instance ly the attempt to attribute to "forelgn—protestant mission—instigation the present student unrest.
These attempts to attribute to other than "their proper" causes Chin justifiable sense of grievance will, of course, deceive few Chinese, and are evidences only of that" dullness the Japanese mental make-up in sensing the feelings and susceptibilities of als true, og all those hope who: trish not to drive a wedge between Lise two nations, but to bring them see ord foundation on mutual equality, thal, as Mr. Nakano says "the Japanese people as 2 whole have no intention "whatever of coming fo collision with the Chinese peo= ples," then one can only lament that hose honourable intentions "the [Japanese people are being betrayed bby' the sere of Japan's military.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.