the Editor of the Nontu-Cniva DatLy News!
Sm—I am addressing you these few lines in the hope that they may meet the eyes of some of the officials of, the Shanghai Nanking Railws There is undoubtedly something very far wrong with' the mane ment of this line else the public uld receive early assurance that newspapers how the Belch rears galas atiompting to sever trafic lost: to. autobusoes speeding up express trains, improv.
the lot of third class "pas. engers, cheapening fares and fo von.' What's niserabie cone feast" we haves here sin this emighted™ country. "The" only allay between the Capital city and the Reh biggest city of the world concent that even the 'West Helga woald be' "achanea' They have n complete morloply. many trains as they care to' diag long. their onseratle single Tine woul be fied to overbowing with ager passengers, fie mandatine of the said SUR. lose as far as 7 can make out
fet Sp. over twenty "yeart age bridged version of, atime tbh They apparently. entirely fail "to realise "hat 'Nanking is) now. the Sepia of China and that Tot of people. are waiting to give them nese ro as soy nay Zara lo stree The the weakened habit' I'have travel: fed on this line on Saturdays snd Sandays for several years and 1 can that Tea count on tion given in the House of Gommons" afew" days ago, Let me quple terial fiom: hansard of Major-General Sir "Alfred Knox! asked the Secretary of State for tne "Gore 10 Yontdors ithe sacks Heme te aerert who cot Union, $1860; tet"buriae fo, Concha cosy 928.0% the test She Nemises itn cenelted $25.00; medical assistance, $20.00! Total $180 30" he fingers of one hand' the ines Phave been able to procure a seat felony clare. Ihave lie paint the Company's minor peoples Goards, Collesors "and. Train Boys, hele "are usually hoptul fend courteous Permit me Sir to give a brief example. My experience is that fast Saturday evening, time, arrival of 9.18 p.m. train at Soochow bow ior Shanghai. The station platform crowded with a seething mass of intending passengers. To. add to the gaiety' of the proceedings 100 immy mules" are tethered. to: ropes fand the whole place is in a state fof filth and. stench. beycad "words. The passengers are hui died "together as mules and soldiery occupy rivet of the space.. The teaperatare is about 98 F, People frantically fan themselves. There iz nota breath Jofair. The posterior's of the mules feet in the way of the oncoming rain." The usual free for all on the arrival ofthe train is complicated this time by mulish melange, Like Jo fool I have bought a first class loket., Of course there is no room. To-night there is. not even standing room, The vendors of toys and books. the boys with the large brass Kettles full" of boiling. water will have to climb over my dead bods to-night. The perspiring dinner car boys can just squeeze past and more. There are no more cold drinks. 'A belong finish. Chinese ladies with weeping infants are jam-ned inthe alley" "The head that of the Black Hole of Cal-cutty. Three mortal hours of this endurance test. A veritable inferno Teall it, The hi that at Shanghai servant came saying "Number three have not too Crease spot that was once master much man. "Have eatchee very good seat." If it had not been for these damned mules ow O mandarins would it not be possible for you to instruct "your minions at Soochow to refuse to sell first class tickets. Surely there is a telegraph to Wusih! Would it be too munch to ask that you stop play ing mahjong for a day or two. and Jattempt to modernise your railway?
there no one in the Government Ministry "of "Railways sufficiently enlightened to stop squeeze and get that double track' laid. You have got the land already. You have got the tragic waiting for you. You will get all the more squeeze later but for goodness sake do something for your fellow-countrymen and sprinkling of unfortunate foreigners in your midst. Thanking you Sir for space to cool hased "vould "walk sway? Why sone guilty of murder and being
foment, he use his, own reasoning? ind Probably the murderer ran fas Garden Road, after which he Shook of hig pursuers. when the irate was changed at that point. On his way to the Japanese Cons: fate, he would have to pass police: mer" point, dat. Now "what Nant nature as "'Whangpoo® would beeman not gifted with an obser~
notice him?
Now 1 wonder why there is 0 comparison" between armed robe feries and kidnapping cases in Hongkong and Shanghai. Once again T leave that to "Whangpoo's? lown reasoning, It's really too bad that "Whangpoo" had! to move elf the footpath, Siving to a cad game being in progress 'I'm afraid he would have fo do the same if he were around the district, located "at the top Bubbling Well. Toad, between the hows of 8.0, pane and 8.30, pam.
Fruit peel Lying on the roadway Hongkong is very uncommon, Desides that does not call for Police protection, no, no, that is the Sanitary Board. "I wonder has. "Whangpoo" ever walked along the French Bund, I believe that there he'd notice room for improvement, between the hours of 5.00, a.m, and 9.00, a.m, that particular dis trict, Although I've thirteen years, blockaded by' day at the Star Ferry Pier. whilst dealing with rieshas, does }"Whangpoo" realise how one is pes tered by them in Shanghai, Hongkong one without having. that being, rushed at by two to ten of them? newspaper vendors in Hongkong don't as a rule thrust papers, into one's face, unless one does not observe where one is going. I take my hat off to "Whangpoo," for ever iting Hongkong with one good point, that being the licensing of 1 wonder has Sat at a window If not i tell him, that not only.
vendors annoy you, but as well
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