"Nontu-Cuina Daty News." the Editor of the 1R,—It sounds like a joke to note One of the rate-payers has had courage to raise such unfair cism in your paper against stra Paci in saying that the municipal Qrehestra"" plays the part obscure and often un-compositions I, representing of the Chinese music lovers can you that the composers like hoven and Tschaikowsky are n known among many Chi lough the Western music ow thing in China, often could not bear to think a big city, such international heving of the people could not} support one, just only one cultural institution, "I believe t this expenditure of appro; ely slight to the whole municipal enuie is more significant ex of the type of civilization that claim to repre or similar expondit for culture and the highest of recreation than the parks play-grounds and is just as thy of support as the schools hospitals, One gets rather tired of hearing that conditions on the river" apparently becoming normal whea we have bandits firing from—one lo of the stream and the Na. tionalist, troops watching said fring on the other side apparently en-Joying the fire works. As a married man earning his living on river ships I think T express the feeligs of other married men running on the river when I state that this condition of affairs is absolutely impossible and we should like Know if there is any approximate date when these chances we take are to be at least minimized. 1 am quite sure that a number of people in Shanghai do not realize—what really goes on on our ships, or I should say, all those other than officers running on steeniers, and I that all' officers running between Hankow and Tehang will agree' with me when I say that] we leave Shanghai never quite sure that we shall sce it again, and 1 should like to ask what will happen to our wives and babies, if one man was brought back to Shanghai feet foremost, would it be a of "very sorry, we should be very pleased to pay Mrs......... three months salary and a free passage home" or what would the com pany do, Guns have now been placed an] firmly so on Temple Hill and other places on the Middle trenches have been cut very difficult for our gun boats fire upon the Reds with any degree of accuracy.
Satton, Shanghai, Dee. 17, 1930, To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cutiwa Dany News."
Sin,—"Sailor" it would seem is bleating overmuch about hi tial responsibilities. Let hu quite openly to his company that his circumstances do not permit him take such risks as are experienced on the Yangtze R., they will, I am sure, man their ships with people more suited to the conditions. To} predict peace in China is to predict the appreciation of the della
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