Monday's "NE. D. News"
open were rent out readers" promptly' find "expeditiously to! send their usual. contribution" to. "the Christmas Fund which this journal Annually alsos Yor the' Rickshaw Mlasion: Ninteen years ago the iis-sion was founded and bythe fatigable efforts of Mr. Gear matheson helped by a Committee ich Mr. R. Ws Davis in the Chi man, it has magnificently relied on Woluntary support of its tmobtrusive bat effective labours "among. the ickshawmen and. belt families. Branches of the Mission extend to many districts round: Shanghai and Pooling. Its headquarters are' Chapel and during the late disturb: ances had to be evacuated for a "The Mission buildings ing Ming Road were actually in the centre of the bombarded. district but escaped without injury. Those who recall the disturbances it'not forget how nobly. the rick:
came fo the rescue of Seeking transport. The. hel Fendevéd n'a commercial basis but anyo Pek inthe ce fusion, waa unpaid although others Undoubtedly profited, Alemory of the huge loads: carried on that ocfashion persists in. the minds of tookers-on, Te of the Ficksha St any load wich can reasonably assigned to his frail craft. ANd the rickshaw men. themselves were victims of the disturbances, They had long weeks of curfew when receipts dropped and the Mission, without any' special appeal, quietly helped. them. After the fighting had ceased ite reputation among its proteges had vison enormously.
Tt had done its fob well. Tt had 1e|opened food centres and brought relief at the right moment to sta ing men and their families." So to. dag, "there is every Jontisction for Ghhvisimas appeal than ever.
Srging stronger support of the
of an appeal which asks for deep fives into shallow purses. Te wel comes. the big donation but it Specialy pleased with the "widow's mite?" Bor, the rickshaw men are the true philosophers of depressed Humanity." They shek not the task fof earning their living. They sub-to rules which somer by the Police, If they are involved in the traffic problem of Shanghai it is not their fault. And, it is no exaggeration to say, they solve for thousands of foreigners and Chinese the difficult question of transporta tion. Otherwise it would throw on
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