To the Editor of the Nowrn-Cmixa Datty News."
St,—Apropos of your article this morning's issue the following is the translation of am extract from the "Shun Pao" under date degree of commercialism. The purely amateur and self-supporting clubs are not always able to stand the strain of hospitality. But beyond that point we have no need of financial assistance. There are several excellent playing fields in Shanghai devoted entirely to publ recreation and they are quite suffcient for our needs if—properly apportioned. Certainly, if there is avy congestion in football schedules, the acquisition of one extra ground will not help very much, than a few extra termi The gate-money charged in the past was merely another way of Jetting the general "chi Tenses of bringing teams from far away ports, but the gate-money which is to be derived from these mew ventures will be mainly used to maintain the new ventures, And they will require an increasingly forge maintenance. One thing leads to another. Organization will need Big staffs will need money. Gate receipts will have to swelled to meet expenses. And further staffs will be needed to handle finances. The whole thing will be an endless cycle of increas-jog T personally @rop. the whole business of com-our amateur sport and amain on the sane level of the "Before, the wages of the Foreign Staff were paid in ster= ling, the master from £40 to $50 per' month, he chief engineer £55 to £44 and the other oticers some litle les; the Company. al-trays Tost money owing t0 the Uiference of the exchange. All the wages are now paid in dollars.
months" Home leave wit the" full pay after five Years? service for the Foreign Staff and fil the Passage money for their families have been stopped by the Company, Tf any of the Foreign Staff leave the Service they are replaced by the Chinese. On recount of the above items the Company may save plenty of money each year. From January to August of this year over 50 foreigners (including the masters) left the Company's services and were replaced by Chinese" As the above may be accepted as a "reflection of the Company mentions and not their utterances the statement made by Mr.
Chao to your repoter om Aprit 18 fant tothe effect that, "it wns abe were their foreign employees" is hereby Stamped asa terminological me wactitude, and the failure of Mr. Chao to. respond to the invitation Extended by he undersigned in Jour columns om September 19 Task cosily understood. past. We do not want our pleasant athletic recreations subjected to the oilying and bowling of crazed I am, ete.
Kew.
Shanghai, Nov. 24, 2928.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.