A welcome addition to the information service of the French Municipality is the monthly health report, issued in English, which appears. In this Journal today for the first time, The French authorities have long sheltered behind an. impenetrable modesty in recording their Activities although their problems are none the less Important. than those of the Shanghai Municipal Council which has its own elaborate information service. On the question of health conditions alone, in these times, when diseases fare epidemic throughout the "foreign areas, residents are more than anxious to obtain th official view of affairs and the French health Two letters published in Saturday's issue on the subject of curfew hours, approach the suh-Jeet from two Points of view with which it Is possible to have every sympathy. That appearing over the pseudonym RULE oF TIlE LAW Geals with the question of the cabarets "on outside roads and curfew, and makes the. point that the regulations should either be observed abolished. Obviously rules which are blatantly ignored reflect upon the authority responsible for their enactment. It has been roved, on an uncomfortable number of occa-Sions, that curfew regulations prove of enor. mous assistance to the police in the matter of the suppression of crime. Total relaxation the present time would throw an undue but den upon their shoulders, and, in all conscience," the splendid service the force has rend-
All creditors and debtors of the estate of the late Dare Frederick Alexander Wallace ato re guested to furnish particulars. to Messrs. Platt, White-Cooper & Ca., 83 Poking Road, Shanghai Mrs. Sarah Weingarten states that she Is not the "executrix" of the estate of the late Adolf Weingarten, nor has she undertaken any
affairs. responsibility "or lability for the "deceased's Young foreign Indy, with knowledge of English, German, French, spoken and written Chinese (Mandarin), typing and general amice work, seeks position. Travelling, outport no objection. Address Box 3682, NCDN.
Persons having claims against the estate of Teracl Berek Sternberg, who died at Shanghai on April 6, 1932, are requested to fle same at the Polish Consulate General, 26 Route Delastr Shanghai, on or before July 31, 1930, An export well-introduced agent required for distribution of woven wool for Indies" wear and ling and gentleman's overcoating by man-Austrian woollen ods factory. Replies should be sent to "Export 1260" c/o Rudolf Mosse, A. G,.. Vienni 'The Shanghai Directory; published by the North-China Dally News & 'Herald Ltd, will be off the press early in July. As usual It will cover Shanghai firms and' residents in detail and will sell at the same price as in former years, $6 per copy. The Shanghai Directory is the July edition of the China Hong List, Holders of Shanghai Waterworks Ca, Ltd, debentures to bearer are notified that interest fon the 6 per cent, Issue, January 1932, the 5% per cent. Issue January 1937, and 5 per cent, Issue July 1937 will be payable on and after Sune 30, 1938, at the offices of the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation, Shanghai, fered the International Settlement during the past eleven months should not now be imposed upon. It certainty is not supporting. the morale of the force to permit infraction of the rules to be committed unheeded. There is also. passage through the strocts could easily be obtained on reporting the incidence of a case of cholera to the nearest policeman on duty, while the creation of a transport service for the needy should be no more dificult Walking Delicately The Rotary International Convention has been held in San Franetaco, and, in the course proceedings, a British ward. condemning war What Happens When Mine is Exploded A geyser of 150 feet caused by the explosion of a Chinese the Yangtze River wear Anki The mines are brought to the surface Not prove difficult by nets used by Japanese minesweepers and then fired at by machineguns to explode them, the question injustice "done to those cabarets which do observe the rule, which they are present. The remedy' Seems to be strict enforcement. If ca-berets care to cater for their customers during curfew hours, and the cus. tomers are stupid enough to desire to. remain there' until five in the! morning, that entirely their affair, but passage on the roads, unless persons duly thorized, should be stopped until such time as curfew can bbe permanently: 1itted. The point raised. by Y¥.C.W. concern. ing the dimeulty of getting attention for those stricken with cholera during curfew hour undoubtedly. presents a. neat problem. It should of Solution. liliand it appears that jon would embarrass the Japanese weeured its withdrawal, saying was the World Knew that A, great deal of the world's present troubles has been due to the display of exactly the same port of spirit In political matters,—fear of enusingy embarrassment, leading to the suppression of uncomfortable" truths. Had there been more straight talking between the nations of the world during the past few years many problems would by now have been settled instead of remaining outstanding causes of international friction, The ame applies to this singular action at the Rotarian convention. In what way would the passage of the resolution have embarrassed the Japanese delegation, if, as Rotarians they abhor "The reason for' their abhorrence is tts barbarity and needlessness. The oMelal pa nese attitude has been consistently that in taking the action they hava against China' they have been foreed to do s0 in sorrow Father than anger, in an attempt to enteres a closer friendship between the two and not from any delight in war. It is not to be believed. for the Japanese, any more than riy oth wants war, oF that they regard it in any other light than catastrophic, If they did the passage of the proposed resolution would have been no more embarrassing, than their actual membership of the organization This journal has a very profound admiration for Rotary and what it stands for, but If it 13 going to become mea tie-mouthed over such matters as condemning wrong for fear of embarrassing someone, then itis in danger of casing 10 be a force in world affairs, as it should be, and. of degenerating into. a very pleasing orgssieation of congenial, souls, in the world, but not of it
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