To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Ciuna Dany News"
Sin—Yesterday, Sunday, at six p.m. while returning to Shanghai by car with a few friends of mine from Paoshan by the new motor road, I suddenly realized that the approach to the university of Woosung was closed by a row of benches. I had Just negotiated this obstacle when T noticed that a second row of benches had been placed a little further. At the same time a group of young men, headed by one wearing spectacle yelling Jike savages, faced hurling a stool against the left front fender, 1 immediately stopped my ear and asked the reason for such an unprovoked action. They answered that they were students of the university, that they were having their meal at the restaurant opposite their quarters and were annoyed with the motorists causing dust, 1 congratulated them on the education they received at the university! The farcical part of the incident is that sturdy policeman, clad in white, Kept himself solemnly aloof at the entrance of the gate of the university. We had seen the barricade, had seen my car approaching, seen the group of these excited youngsters hurl the stool but did not'move an inch from his place. When asked who controlled the road traMe, the police or the mob of uneducated students, this specimen of the minions of the law falled to reply.
It I had not been travelling at a very moderate speed (20 miles an hour) the incident could have had very serious consequences as the double barricade of benches could easily have caused' my cai to. fall {nto the creek between the road and the university. v.c.
Shanghai, August 24.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.