The Archive · 1932

A Terse Retort

To, the Editor of the "NowtH-Cutwa Dai News."

Sm—I don't, know whether your Jcorrespondent "Graft" is trying to funny, or whether he is just an-Jother of those harmless idiots, who fare, unfortunately, born that way.

In any se, if he will arouse his id [enfeebled int tellect, he should realise that a two hour.' tiffin interval necessary these days, than it [was 10 or 20 years ago, Not all people in Shanghai pos-' sess motor cars, and a journey by bus during the' rush hours to say Avenue Joffre/Route des Soeurs, Joceupies over half an hour, and the [same time on the return journey. think this instance is enough for "Graft", who I would recom: mend to find something better to do with his time than write letters to [the paper about matters he apparently knows nothing of.

It would be interesting to learn what those members of the longest, Bar in the world, and forty-winkers have to say on this subject:

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