The \promptness with which the various Police, Tire Brigade. ambulances and other services appeared on the scene of the terrible in Nanking Road on Monday has already received attention. Some excellent rescue work was done. Noteworthy among the services thus rendered were Chinese Boy Scouts who proved themselves to be most efficient mi s of help and relief in very trying circumstances. As in the previous disaster, on the 14th of August, the general readiness of everyone on the spot to think of the injured rather than of himself and herself was truly remarkable. It proved once again that ina common disaster there is a common comradeship which conds all bounds of nationality, creed or c If only this spirit of endeavour could be effectively harnessed to the wider purpose of saving humanity from the conflict of which that disaster was the outcome the world might be not only happier but more secure.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.